describe the Pearl harbor incident
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3][11] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI,[12][13] and as Operation Z during its planning.[14]
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II
Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view.jpg
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Date December 7, 1941; 77 years ago
Location
Primarily Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Result Major Japanese tactical victory; precipitated the entrance of the United States into World War II, other consequences
Belligerents
United States
Japan
Commanders and leaders
United States Navy ADM Husband E. Kimmel
LTG Walter Short
RA Robert A. Theobald
Empire of Japan VADM Chūichi Nagumo
ADM Isoroku Yamamoto
CDR Mitsuo Fuchida
Strength
8 battleships
8 cruisers
30 destroyers
4 submarines
3 USCG cutters[nb 1]
47 other ships[4]
≈390 aircraft
Mobile Unit:
6 aircraft carriers
2 battleships
2 heavy cruisers
1 light cruiser
9 destroyers
8 tankers
23 fleet submarines
5 midget submarines
414 aircraft