Who is Pearl Harbor?

Question

Please help me

Answer 1

It is not a who, it is a place.

The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.

By late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.

The U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.

Answer 2

Lol, Pearl Harbor isn't a person, are you trying to do this Jeopardy style? ;)

Pearl Harbor is a military base and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, west of Honolulu.

Commonly referred to as the event "which will live in infamy". It was the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941 that brought the United States into World War II.

Answer 3

Pearl Harbor was a naval base for the United States in the Hawaiian Islands in 1941. It was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, and the US was then drawn into WWII in the Pacific theater.

Chow!!

Answer 4

Japanese attacked pearl harbor because of reasons such as oil embargo imposed by US because Japan occupy China but unknown to anybody before the attack by Japan Imperial navy to Pearl harbor the Civilian leader of US and few selected Naval Commander or Mil Ldr have a pre-hand before the attack that s why their Aircraft carrier were not around during the attacked. The US knows in advance about time and when and strenght of JIN because they have already deciphered or decoded the radio or the US have access to their JIN communication between their civilian leaders and Military ldrs. The US has a best signal intelligence and human intelligence even when US at war with China, China will be defeated cuase their communication was already debugged by US long time ago. Now you cannot do this if not of the elite people or conglomerate businessman who has power even the leadership of China and mil ldrs are under in their sphere of influence including the US. My conclusion therefore is business if China does not behaved they are doomed for destruction.

Answer 5

The guy is asking a valid question. There are several naval bases, ships and other military instillations that are named after real people. Unfortunately, my search for the word origin of "Pearl Harbor" didn't come up with anything. Sorry.

Answer 6

Pearls Harbor is a place in Hawaii. It was bombed by the Japanese in Dec. 1941 (I think) and began the war in the Pacific for the U.S. The attack destroyed a good part of the american fleet in the pacific since all the ships were parked there side by side

Answer 7

For information about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ANYi0fTFsQ

Much of what is believed about the Second World War is myth that has grown up out of Allied war propaganda, and some of it was created after the war by people who either had something to gain, or something to hide, by way of deception.

Answer 8

its actully a place . . .

Answer 9

who?

Answer 10

is.......think you mean what....cant be that ignorant can you