USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly half of the airplanes at Hickam Field had been destroyed or severely damaged. The hangars, the Hawaiian Air Depot, several base facilities–the fire station, the chapel and the guardhouse–had been hit. The big barracks had been repeatedly strafed and bombed and a portion of the building was on fire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Losses were light for the Japanese with only twenty-nine planes being lost. Due to the nature of the second wave facing more opposition, twenty planes were lost, considerably more than the nine during the first wave.

Detailed explanation-3: -Impact of the Pearl Harbor Attack In all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The JRS-1 is one of only three airplanes still in existence that were at Pearl Harbor during the attack, and the only airplane in the Museum’s collection that was there during the attack.

Detailed explanation-5: -They launched dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes. There were 353 Japanese aircraft involved in the attack, 29 of which were shot down. Only one Japanese ship that participated survived to the end of the war.