2007-12-10 11:50:04 · 15 answers · asked by namrehs 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Oahu
2007-12-10 11:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by gloria s 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Roosevelt had embargoed oil exports to Japan, especially painful was the loss of aviation fuel to the Japanese. The ruling clique in Japan thought it best to strike Pearl Harbor and inflict a massive military blow to the USA. Apparently it was thought that if the operation was overwhelmingly successful, sinking the battleships and carriers at anchor; that the USA would be so demoralized that they might sue for peace. The first two waves were devastating to the ships on battleship row; however, the all important carriers were out at sea,somewhere that Admiral Kaga did not know. That is probably why the third wave was called off, Kaga felt a great victory had been won, and he had to protect his fleet from all those carrier planes. This was probably the worst and fatal mistake made by the Japanese that day. If that third wave had been able to destroy the tank farms with all the fuels for the ships and planes; even if the third wave had suffered high attrition, the destuction of the majority of that fuel would have set back the movements of the fleet a full year, since all fuels had to be tankered out from California The Japanese would have a full extra year to secure all that they had invaded.Because the tank farms were not seriously damaged, when the dangerous carriers came back into port to refuel, refit and resupply, they were readily able too, with alacrity. And the reaction of the American population was anything but demoralized; instead people were incensed and infuriated; thus Roosevelt soon after declred war on the Empire of Japan. He did not declare war on Germany, but Adolf Hitler, eight days later,declared war on the USA. Reportedly some of his aides were horrified, England was not defeated yet, now it was all-out help for England from the USA.
2016-05-22 22:42:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ford Island is in the Middle of Pearl Harbor, in fact the airfield you see in the old footage, or in movies is the Airfield on Ford Island. The mooring where the USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma still lay are on Ford Island.
A few years ago the Navy built a nice modern drawbridge out to Ford Island so one no longer has to take a launch from mainland Oahu out to the island. Subsequently the Navy also renovated the old hospital in to a Navy Lodge and has built some very nice family living quarters on the island.
2007-12-10 14:11:41 · answer #3 · answered by Greenman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only one worth bombing Oahu
2007-12-10 12:24:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oahu
2007-12-10 11:55:11 · answer #5 · answered by derek k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oahu
2007-12-10 11:54:46 · answer #6 · answered by mtchndjnmtch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oahu
2007-12-10 11:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by She's Back 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oahu. First the Windward side (Kaneohe Naval Air Station now USMC) then the Leeward side (Pearl Harbor).
2007-12-10 11:56:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oahu.
2007-12-10 11:52:58 · answer #9 · answered by Fletchenator 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The island of O'ahu in Hawaii west of Honolulu.
2007-12-10 11:52:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋