Origins and aftermath

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to America. Despite the country’s reluctance to enter into World War II, the Japanese had feared America would at some point join the Allies and, in an effort to quell their expected entrance into the global conflict, they intended to cripple the US Pacific Fleet to ensure they would not pose any threat to Japan in South-east Asia. The plan, however, failed to quell the US and instead only achieved the result of incurring the full wrath of the American military, which the Japanese would feel the brunt of culminating in the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. For all those at Pearl Harbor, it was a terrifying experience that has stayed with them ever since.…

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