Pearl Harbor

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Easy reader for English language learners about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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SUNDAY 7TH DECEMBER 1941

THE DAILY NEWS

JAPAN ATTACKS PEARL HARBOR
US FLEET BADLY DAMAGED
JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR today. The attack was a total surprise. Japan and the USA are now at war with each other. Pearl Harbor is an American navy base in Hawaii. There were many large American ships in the harbour when the attack happened.

Start of attack
The attack started this morning at 7.55am. Between 50 and 150 Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor for 35 minutes. The Japanese planes dropped bombs on the American ships. At 9am more Japanese planes arrived. About 100 planes attacked for an hour. The bombs hit 18 ships including the US Arizona. 2403 people were also killed. One US soldiers said “I was eating breakfast. I looked up and I saw lots of planes in the sky. At first I thought they were American planes. Then I saw they had a red circle on their wings so then I knew they were Japanese planes. Suddenly there were big explosions and the whole earth seemed to shake.” The Americans fought back. They destroyed six Japanese planes and four submarines.

Roosevelt gets ready for war
Americans are shocked by the news. The American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, called it a terrible attack. People say that Roosevelt will start a war against Japan tomorrow. People also think he will start to fight Japan’s friend, Germany. Also yesterday, the Japanese attacked US bases in the Philippines and in Guam. Hundreds of Americans were killed in these attacks.

© CLIL360 2014 All rights reserved. May be photocopied for use in the classroom. Images from Wikimedia Commons and are in public domain.

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