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Massacre Harbor: Directed by John Peyser. With Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Lawrence P. Casey, Justin Tarr. Rommel's last open port is maintained by POW labor against Allied bombing, a commando operation is undertaken to liberate the prisoners.
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- Action, Adventure, War
- John Peyser
- 1968-08-17
8 de dez. de 2021 · Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 7 de dezembro de 1941, há 80 anos, o Japão atacou de surpresa a base naval americana de Pearl Harbor, no arquipélago do Havaí.
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16 de set. de 2019 · Pearl Harbor brasileiro. A ordem para a Operação Brasil – a ação de dez submarinos que deviam atacar simultaneamente os portos de Natal, Belém, Recife, Salvador e Rio de Janeiro, destruindo boa parte de nossas marinhas de Guerra e Mercante – seria o Pearl Harbor brasileiro.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. The United States was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China. The Japanese government believed that the only way to solve its economic and demographic problems was to expand into its neighbor’s...
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is located near the center of the Pacific Ocean, roughly 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland and about 4,000 miles from Japan. No one believed that the Japanese would start a war with an attack on the distant islands of Hawaii. Additionally, American intelligence officials were confident that any Japanese attack would take plac...
The Japanese plan was simple: Destroy the Pacific Fleet. That way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. On December 7, after months of planning and practice, the Japanese launched their attack. At about 8 a.m., Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. Bombs and bullets raine...
In all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. Dry docks and airfields were likewise destroyed. Most importantly, more than 2,000 people died. But the Japanese had failed to cripple the Pacific Fleet. By the 1940s, battleships were no longer the most important naval vessel: Ai...
The attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,403 U.S. personnel, including sailors, soldiers and civilians. Additionally, 1,178 people were wounded. 129 Japanese soldiers were killed. Half of the dead at Pearl Harbor were on the USS Arizona. Today the sunken battleship serves as a memorial to all Americans who died in the attack.
President Franklin D. Rooseveltaddressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on December 8, the day after the crushing attack on Pearl Harbor. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” He went on to say, “No matt...
After the Pearl Harbor attack, and for the first time during years of discussion and debate, the American people were united in their determination to go to war. The Japanese had wanted to goad the United States into an agreement to lift the economic sanctions against them; instead, they had pushed their adversary into a global conflict that ultima...
17 de mai. de 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 17, 2024 • Article History. Pearl Harbor attack. Date: December 7, 1941. Location: Hawaii. Oahu. United States. Participants: Japan. United States. Context: Operation Barbarossa. Pacific War. Second Sino-Japanese War. World War II. Key People: Nagano Osami. Tōjō Hideki. Yamamoto Isoroku.
Action & adventure. In a compilation of episodes from the TV series "The Rat Patrol," four Allied soldiers plot to liberate prisoners of war being used to maintain a North African harbor.
