![]() Hong Kong and Indo-China fell to them without difficulty, but the greatest triumphs occurred on the Malay peninsula and in Singapore, where British, Australian and Indian troops were forced into humiliating surrender. On hearing this intelligence, Admiral Yamamoto, the gifted master planner of the enterprise, knew that the war was already as good as lost.ĭespite this, Japanese plans elsewhere worked beyond expectation. This was because, providentially, they were out at sea on that day - sometimes known as the Day of Infamy. ![]() It failed, however, in its main aim, that of sinking the American fleet's aircraft carriers. The raid at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 was a devastating blow to the Americans. They worked on the assumption that a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet's base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, would enable the Imperial Japanese army, air force and navy to attain the warlords' territorial aims before the western Allies could react. ![]() ![]() These needs fired the strategic thinking of belligerent politicians and service chiefs in Tokyo. ![]()
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