Post by Bugsey on Dec 7, 2008 13:09:21 GMT -5
Answers to quiz....1. False....Even though Hawaii was not yet a state at the time of the attacks, the Japanese still attacked U.S. soil when their submarines fired at both Fort Stevens in Oregon and the Ellwood oil production facilities near Santa Barbara, Calif...2.B....Shortly before 4 a.m. local time, the USS Condor spotted a Japanese midget submarine at the entrance of Pearl Harbor. The destroyer USS Ward went in search of the sub, but couldn't find it right away. 3. A USS Ward
While the USS Ward couldn't find the midget sub it was after right away, the destroyer did sink a Japanese submarine a little after 6:30 a.m., making those shots the first American shots fired in the war in the Pacific... 4. A...Kazuo Sakamaki was the first Japanese prisoner of war held by Americans in World War II. The other nine sailors on his small submarine died in the attack, but Sakamaki survived and was captured. On the eighth anniversary of the attack, he published a memoir, "I Attacked Pearl Harbor." However, it was Cmdr. Yamamoto Isoroku who planned the Japanese navy's attack on Pearl Harbor.....5.True.. Honolulu architect Alfred Preis was held at Sand Island for three months at the start of the war. The U.S. government declared Preis an enemy of the country because he had been born in Austria. He later went on to design the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor....6..C...15- Fifteen people were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their service during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ten of those individuals received the award posthumously. Of the five survivors, one was killed in action 11 months after the events at Pearl Harbor. Today, only one recipient of the medal is still living.....7..217...During the attack, 217 planes were destroyed -- 155 U.S. planes and 29 Japanese....8.-D..No carriers were damaged during the attacks because they were hundreds of miles away from Pearl Harbor at the time -- taking soldiers to Wake and Midway Islands. The Enterprise should have been back at Pearl Harbor by Dec. 7, but its return was delayed due to bad weather.....9.-F- Congress' decision to go to war with Japan was not unanimous. Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, cast the only dissenting vote. She was the first woman elected to Congress and a lifelong pacifist.......10-False- Following investigations conducted after the attack, the Pacific Fleet and Army commanders at Pearl Harbor were both relieved of their commands shortly after being accused of "dereliction of duty." They were exonerated in 1999.
While the USS Ward couldn't find the midget sub it was after right away, the destroyer did sink a Japanese submarine a little after 6:30 a.m., making those shots the first American shots fired in the war in the Pacific... 4. A...Kazuo Sakamaki was the first Japanese prisoner of war held by Americans in World War II. The other nine sailors on his small submarine died in the attack, but Sakamaki survived and was captured. On the eighth anniversary of the attack, he published a memoir, "I Attacked Pearl Harbor." However, it was Cmdr. Yamamoto Isoroku who planned the Japanese navy's attack on Pearl Harbor.....5.True.. Honolulu architect Alfred Preis was held at Sand Island for three months at the start of the war. The U.S. government declared Preis an enemy of the country because he had been born in Austria. He later went on to design the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor....6..C...15- Fifteen people were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their service during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ten of those individuals received the award posthumously. Of the five survivors, one was killed in action 11 months after the events at Pearl Harbor. Today, only one recipient of the medal is still living.....7..217...During the attack, 217 planes were destroyed -- 155 U.S. planes and 29 Japanese....8.-D..No carriers were damaged during the attacks because they were hundreds of miles away from Pearl Harbor at the time -- taking soldiers to Wake and Midway Islands. The Enterprise should have been back at Pearl Harbor by Dec. 7, but its return was delayed due to bad weather.....9.-F- Congress' decision to go to war with Japan was not unanimous. Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, cast the only dissenting vote. She was the first woman elected to Congress and a lifelong pacifist.......10-False- Following investigations conducted after the attack, the Pacific Fleet and Army commanders at Pearl Harbor were both relieved of their commands shortly after being accused of "dereliction of duty." They were exonerated in 1999.