Pearl Harbor attack was the beginning of World War 2 between United States and Japan. The Pearl Harbor Attack was a surprise attack done by the Japanese Air Force on December 7, 1941. Just before 8:00 on sunday morning the crew of the US Navy in Pearl Harbor along with their warship suddenly observed some fighter planes flying in the sky and then the attack began by torpedo bombers to destroy the warship. Before the attack the three captains of Japan who led this attack were Chūichi Nagumo, Isoroku Yamam, Mitsuo Fuchida collected pictures of ship in Pearl Harbor and and gave special orders to destroy them. During the attack the Japanese air force fired dive bombs to destroy those warships and torpedos to destroy aircraft carriers.
The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft (including fighters, level and dive bombers, and torpedo bombers) in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. Eight U.S. Navy battleships were present, all were damaged, with four sunk. All but USS Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war.
The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer A total of 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Important base installations such as the power station, dry dock, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines were lost, and 64 servicemen were killed. Kazuo Sakamaki, the commanding officer of one of the submarines, was captured.
Japan announced a declaration of war on the United States later that day (December 8 in Tokyo), but the declaration was not delivered until the following day. The following day, December 8, Congress declared war on Japan. On December 11, Germany and Italy each declared war on the U.S., which responded with a declaration of war against Germany and Italy. There were numerous historical precedents for the unannounced military action by Japan, but the lack of any formal warning, particularly while peace negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy". Because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, the attack on Pearl Harbor was later judged in the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime.
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