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The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed the United States
Navy's fleet of battleships when it attacked Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. It was a
devastating defeat, but the boys in blue bounced
back. Six months later, naval aviators sunk four
Japanese aircraft carriers at the Battle of
Midway. Japan lost her best pilots and some of her
best ships. From then on, she was one the
defensively as the the U.S. Navy continued the aerial
war, fighting carriers and supporting marine and army
invasions of Japanese-held islands. |
