By:Jason

What war was brutal, surprised, in an island, and was a long time ago? Thats right- Pearl Harbor. Theres more but to now you got to read on. !T "## $T"%T&'( When "dmiral !soru u )amamoto planned to atta* Pearl Harbor. He was a *ommander o+ the Japans na,y, and *ontrols the oil +ields o+ the Pa*i+i* -*ean. Without oil the na,y boats o+ .apan *ouldnt wor . $o he had to *ontrol all o+ the Pa*i+i* -*ean oil, to do that he had to destroy the /.$. He new the /.$ power and had to learn all about the /.$. He had de*ided to surprise atta* on Pearl Harbor sin*e 0123. How *ould he get all o,er the Pa*i+i* -*ean? He made some air*ra+t *arriers whi*h *arried Japanese planes in the middle o+ the o*ean and it was easy +or them to atta* Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. $/%P%!$& "TT"45 -n 'e*ember6, 6:37 "8 a radar indi*ated a large group o+ planes approa*hing. They were not *om+ortable with what they saw about the planes. !nstead o+ being "meri*an planes, they were 09: Japanese planes +or the +irst wa,e in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. &arlier, Japanese submarines were trying to atta* Pearl Harbor but they hit them and they were destroyed. Japanese torpedoes and bombs were laun*hed and war had begun. They wor ed in +i,e to destroy their targets together. "meri*ans did not noti*e them atta* . The na,y boats started to sin . 'uring the atta* a band o+ the /$$ ;e,ada ship had started to sing <The $tar$pangled Banner.= They sang it until they +inished the song. Torpedoes hit the /$$ - lahoma and it was really bad that it rolled. -il spilled and it be*ame +ire, and the sailors o+ the boat were trying to run away badly burning. "bout an hour

a+ter the se*ond wa,e o+ the Japanese has started and it atta* ed +our air+ields. $ome Japanese went low that the "meri*ans *ould see their +a*es in the planes. $ome "meri*ans were illed be+ore they *ould e,en ta e o++, and some *ould ta e o++ and ill Japanese but they were too many. Japan only lost 71 air*ra+t and > small submarines. The war ended by 03:33 P8 and a Japanese person sends a message <$urprise "tta* $u**ess+ul.= But what they didnt now is that it wasnt that su**ess+ul. They did not bomb the oil storage tan +arms that were around Pearl Harbor. Japanese hoped to destroy the air*ra+t *arriers around Pearl Harbor but the air*ra+t *arriers were in other islands and they were not at Pearl Harbor 'e*ember 6. They ha,e sur,i,ed the war that +ollowed. "+ter The War President %oose,elt spo e to *ongress to de*lare war in Japan and that day the /$ atta* ed ?ermany and !taly. "meri*ans responded and entered the war. !n +our years the /$ +inally +or*e Japan to surrender. Pearl Harbor was a tragi*ally e,ent in Hawaii that was surprising. -+ what happened, *ountries dont li e ea*h other. Japanese and the /$ are not +riends. That is why +riends should li e ea*h other and they would +ight to be the best.