How did the bombing of Pearl Harbour contribute to the Japanese defeat?
As Yammamoto, the IJN admiral who planned Pearl Harbour and wanted to take out the US carriers, said: “I fear we have awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve”. Winston Churchill knew the signifigance of the US entry nto the war-he celebrated! The enormous capacity and inventiveness of US industry was now ranged against the Axis powers and the population was totally committed to total war from day 1. The attack galvanised the US behind the war and volunteers flooded recruiting stations, factories stopped making cars and started making tanks-most of the British vehicles and a lot of the USSR’s trucks were US made. The Europeans in Asia were being soundly defeated and trying to fight a two front war on the end of a very long supply line. The US entry meant an eventual Japanese defeat was inevitable. Even if the carriers were sunk and Nagumo flattened the fuel tanks, dry docks and other vital infrastructure at Peral that he missed in the first two raids of the day, t
