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Hawai'i's Journey to Statehood | Day of Infamy | 4
American History Tellers
The Japanese Attack on Oahu
The Japanese Navy had developed special torpedoes that could be dropped by air into the shallower water of Pearl Harbor and still strike their targets. The Army Air Corps lost hundreds of aircrafts at Wheeler Field and Hicom Field. Other planes were destroyed at the Navy's Kanyohai Air Station on Oahu's eastern shore, preventing all but a few planes from mounting any response. Sailor soldiers and Marines scrambled to fight back, firing anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns,. Even rifles and pistols, whatever they could find. They managed to shoot down more than two dozen enemy planes, but in the chaos, someAnti-aircraft shells missed their targets, and landed in residential areas
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