USA/Japan: The USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia (left) and the wreck of the USS Arizona, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, December 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia.

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