Thursday, December 07, 2006

Pearl Harbor...

Please take a few minutes of silence today to remember those who died on Dec 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor.

"At 7.55am [PST] on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed. Only chance saved three US aircraft carriers, usually stationed at Pearl Harbor but assigned elsewhere on the day. The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/pearl_harbour_01.shtml


In total, WWII Japan counted 1.75M killed/missing and 350k civilian deaths, 214k from the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

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