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Torpedo Attack at Pearl Harbour

Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1941

Shigeharu Murata7 December 1941

Pearl Harbour · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Murata leads the first-wave torpedo attack unit against American warships at Pearl Harbour.

Names involved

Shigeharu Murata

Provenance

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