Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor is a simple harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a U.S. Navy deep-water naval base: headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, led to the United States entry into World War II.
Note: The foregoing applies to OTL and most timelines with a POD after December 7, 1941.
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[edit] Pearl Harbor in Days of Infamy
Pearl Harbor was a United States naval base in Hawaii. It was attacked by Japanese forces in 1941. The American battleship fleet was destroyed in the attack, allowing the Japanese to land soldiers in Hawaii. These soldiers eventually overran all of Hawaii and held it for a year before it was retaken by US forces.
[edit] Pearl Harbor in "News From the Front"
Shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Empire of Japan, the New Yorker ran article that alledged that the American military had been woefully unprepared for the attack. The article provided in detail the missteps and failures that led up to the disaster on December 7.
[edit] Pearl Harbor in Southern Victory
Pearl Harbor was a British naval base in the Sandwich Islands captured by the United States Navy at the outset of the Great War in 1914. The U.S. Navy defended Pearl Harbor throughout the war and made it the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet as it fought the navies of Britain and Japan. At the end of the war, both nations were made to recognize Pearl Harbor, and all of the Sandwich Islands, as American territory.
Late in 1941, during the course of the Second Great War, the Japanese attempted to take Pearl Harbor. They sunk the USS Remembrance, the US Navy's only aircraft carrier in the Pacific. However, despite air superiority and other advantages attached to eliminating the enemy's carrier fleet, Japan failed to take the Sandwich Islands, and ultimately disengaged from conflict with the U.S. altogether.
[edit] Pearl Harbor in Worldwar
Pearl Harbor was a United States naval base in the Pacific Ocean. It was attacked by Japanese forces several months before the Race's Conquest Fleet invaded Earth, drawing the US into World War II. Two years later, the Race destroyed Pearl Harbor with an atomic bomb dropped in retaliation for the Americans' use of an atomic bomb against the Lizards in Miami, Florida.
