Pearl Harbor: inferno in a roadsted

[Diagram by types of ship]

Start: Sunday December 7, 1941

The Japanese started the war in the Pacific by attacking the American Fleet of the Pacific in its main base: Pearl Harbor. Taken aback, the Americans sustained their heaviest naval defeat of the war

Place: Hawaii

	Allied	Axis
Forces	US fleet: 8 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 29 destroyers, 12 destroyers (mine warfare), 6 seaplane carriers, 6 minecrafts, 12 auxiliary ships, 2 oilers, 5 submarines.	351 airplanes.
Losses	5 battleships, 1 auxiliary ship, 188 airplanes lost. 3 battleships, 2 light cruisers, 3 destroyers, 1 seaplane carrier, 1 auxiliary ship, 159 airplanes damaged. 2403 deads.	9 fighters, 15 dive bombers, 5 torpedo planes lost. 5 midget submarines lost, 185 deads.

Webmaster's question(s) and remark(s): Only the ships present in the attacked part of the roadsted have been drawn on the diagram. That excludes the West Loch



Made by LemaireSoft on July 1, 2001