Transcription: Yamamoto's strike was highly successful, neutralizing the American Pacific naval forces for nearly a year at a loss of only 29 Japanese aircraft, 5 submarines and 110 personnel. Only 3 U.S. carriers deployed elsewhere in the Pacific were spared and the U.S. stores of oil in Hawaii, which the Japanese somehow overlooked. But the most important consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor was the entrance of the United States into the Second World War. The very next day, Roosevelt called on Congress to redress the peacetime assault, calling it a day of infamy. Congress responded with an almost unan ...
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