Poor tard knew Japan was making a mistake attacking the US.
1941 Pearl Harbour
At 07:58, 07 December 1941, the alarm went out: “Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is not drill!” Although the Americans had received warnings (and ignored them), surprise was complete. Despite within seven minutes after the first attack, nearly all navy shipboard anti-aircraft guns were manned and in action, American losses were heavy: USS West Virginia, Tennessee and Arizona, along with the battleships Shaw, California, Oklahoma and Nevada. However, the aircraft carriers were at sea and escaped much to the disappointment of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Combined Fleet. He hoped that a quick, surprise attack on the US fleet would make the Americans petition for peace, leaving the Pacific open for the Japanese expansion. He was said to have commented: “we can run wild for six months or a year, but after that I have utterly no confidence.” On the US side, 188 aircraft were destroyed and 155 aircraft damaged as opposed to the Japanese losses of 27. Over two thousand US military were killed but most of the civilian casualties during the attack came from them being hit by anti-aircraft bullets falling back to earth. The loss was humiliating and total.
