Torpedo Attack

Forty Kate torpedo bombers attacked
Pearl Harbor at 7:55 a.m. on Sunday
December 7, 1941. While 16 torpedo
bombers hit the cruiser line on the
north side of Ford Island, 24 torpedo
bombers attacked Battleship Row
where seven U.S. battleships
were moored.

Coming in flights of three, the bombers
put their torpedoes into four
U.S. battleships. Hit repeatedly,
the USS Oklahoma capsized, and the
USS West Virginia and USS California
sank into Pearl Harbor's shallow waters.
The USS Nevada, hit by one torpedo,
managed to get underway only to be
seriously damaged by dive-bombers
later in the raid.