It's been happy land here in Japan for the past two days because of the successful air attack conceived by Admiral Isoroku on the Untied States Pearl Harbor which is on the Island of'92 ahu, Hawaii. It was a sneak attack and a Japan general said that whatever way we can defeat the Untied States is the way we will do it. A United States army man, Private George E. Elliot was quoted as saying \u236\'93 We picked up the flight at and they were 132 miles out at sea. I thought nothing of it because no one in world hi story has even been so cheap and desperate to preform a sneak attack killing innocent people. Even when I saw the first torpedo fly I thought it was one of the drills we run every week. The way Japan went about this is a disgrace."

Our attack killed over 2,400 United States military personnel and civilians, that was the whole purpose, to show President Franklin D. Roosevelt that we mean business. In Japan we learned that on the weekends the staff at the Pearl Harbor military base is almost cut in half . Private Bill Boulware of the Unitd States was quoted as saying "We heard bombing and thought it was Army manoeuvres. Then we saw the Japanese planes dropping bombs. I went for my gun but by the time I was ready it was over. I would have loved to shoot down some of those Japanese planes, they killed my friends. I saw one of the Japanese pilots smiling at us, they knew they caught us by surprize.\u238\'94 Now the United States is up in the air, we got them to fight with each other over why no one was able to predict the surprize attack and American leaders are looking at each other for answers.

What the Americans do not understand is that the attack was the logical result of a series of confrontations between Japan and the United States. \u236\'93Our attack was in and out, exactly the way we had it planned. We got there at 7:55 AM and were gone by 9:45 Am, less than two hours from the start of the attack.\u238\'94 said Commander Mitsuo Fuchida who lead the striking force of approximately 353 Japanese aircraft\u237 The only thing that we did not accomplish were two of our objectives. One was to hit the aircraft carriers Lexington and Enterprise both of which were at sea, and the Sararoga which was in dry dock on the West Coast. Second, we failed to destroy the huge oil st orage facilities, without which the United States Pacific Fleet would have been forced to retire in the West Coast.

We only lost twenty-nine airlanes, five midget submarines and one full- sized submarine in the attack. War has been waged between the Uni ted States and Japan and its Axis Allies, but for now the Japanese are atop in the battle and Japan is in happy land for a mostly successful sneak attack.

Works Cited List

Burger, Charles. "Pearl Harbor-The Japan Perspective." 2nd ed. 1978.