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Hawaiian Island Oahu Research Paper

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On 7:52 Japanese had launched a wave of fighter planes had invaded the Hawaiian island Oahu and had a successful surprise attack. This attack had killed many soldiers in Hawaii and many innocent people around the island. These planes had bombarded the Oahu island everywhere causing a riot and a successful assault. The American people were unprepared for the attack due to the new lieutenant who thought that the Japanese fighter planes were B17s were to arrive at the mainland and because of this the Americans had accidently shot down their own planes. Things had only gotten worse as the Japanese planes had gotten more and more closer to reaching their goal which was to bomb the Pearl Harbor and defeat America Fire and destruction was everywhere on Oahu as firefighters put out the fires and in process three of the firemen died and six of them had got injured. Civilians of Oahu had started to flee from their homes since the Japanese planes had started to attack the civilians homes. The disaster got worse every time the Japanese had deployed an explosive somewhere on an island increasing the fire hazards. Schools had to procedures if a Japanese plane had started to attack the school and the radio station had to warn everyone about going somewhere safe however some did not had a radio therefore they did not receive the message The Hawaiian military were very confused about …show more content…

During the attack, Japanese families were hiding items that were part of their society such as pictures, flags, etc to show that they are loyal to the United States or else they would get shot. Japanese men were arrested even thought they had no idea what was going on or even about the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. These men were taken to internment camps since the United States had thought that the Japanese living in Oahu were sending messages to the Japanese that were attacking the Pear

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