live in infamy" was the best explanation for the worst loss in United States Naval history. This is exactly what Pearl Harbor was. When the sound of the lone Japanese bomber was first heard, many had never expected what horrors would emerge, and what actions would be taken. Pearl Harbor was the most devastating loss in United States Naval History and the worst surprise attack ever against us. The bombing threw us into W.W.II, which in turn ended Hitler's advances in Europe, brought us out of the Great Depression, and started national controversy over the honesty of the Roosevelt administration. To say that Pearl Harbor was a good thing because it placed us in the war and the war ended in Axis defeat, would be a completely incorrect interpretation. For the horror of the victims at Pearl Harbor can not match what happened in any other battle that war. Although Pearl Harbor did not have many direct results, the indirect ones prove that it was a turning !
             point in national and international history. Perhaps if the bombing had never happened, instead of a European Union there might be a Third Reich, and the United States may have just pulled itself out of the depression recently. The possibilities are endless, which is why Pearl Harbor was so definitive in history.
             2,403 were dead which included 2,008 Navy personnel, 1,178 were wounded which also included the 710 Navy personnel. The Battle Force of the Pacific Fleet took "a terrific beating", and Battleship Row along Ford Island was "a shambles". (Buchanan 74) Two-third of the Naval Air Craft had been completely destroyed (75) which included 96 Army and 92 Naval aircraft. Besides this, 159 planes have been damaged, the majority of which are from the Army. (Davis 119) Pearl Harbor had been home to the US Pacific Navy and had been a perfect target to the Japanese. (Bachrach 11) With the surprise attack on the United States by Japan, Franklin...