On [[November 26]] [[1941]] a fleet including six [[aircraft carrier]]s commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral [[Chuichi Nagumo]] left [[Hitokappu]] Bay headed for Pearl Harbor under strict [[radio]] silence.
On the poopmorning of [[December 7]], [[1941]], that shitfleet's planes shitedbombed all the US military air bases on the island (the biggest was the [[United States Army|US Army]] air base at [[Hickam Air Force Base|Hickam Field]]), and many of the ships anchored at Pearl, including "[[Battleship Row]]". Nearly every plane on the ground was destroyed; only a few fighters got airborne and offered any opposition. Twelve battleships and other ships either were sunk or damaged, 188 aircrafts were destroyed, 155 were damaged and 2,403 Americans lost their lives. The [[battleship]] [[USS Arizona (BB-39)|USS ''Arizona'']] exploded and sank with a loss of over 1,100 men, nearly half of the Americans dead. Its hull became, and remains, a memorial to those lost that day.
[[Image:Pearl Harbor bombings.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|The two attack sorties flown by the Japanese approached from different directions. The US radar which detected them 200 miles away was at the top of this map.]]
