Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Can you rephrase this paragraph?
“The United States navy in the Pacific was anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Besides that, 20 warships were sunk or severely damaged, and approximately 150 airplanes were destroyed.The "surprise" attack lasted less than a few hours. In that time though, 2,400 Americans were killed, with 1,100 deaths solely from the battleship Arizona, and almost 1,200 were wounded. On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, while most American sailors were still asleep in their bunks, Japanese planes from aircraft carriers flew over Pearl Harbor bombing every ship in sight. The American public was stunned by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but high government officials were only a bit surprised. After cracking the Japanese code sent through encryption over Japanese communications, the United States government had inklings of a Japanese attack in the Pacific. When the word reached them that nearly all of the entire Pacific fleet had been exterminated in Pearl Harbor with the exception of three battleships, they received a metaphorical "punch in the gut." Their ideas though, mostly pointed to violence erupting in the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and Malaya. This "unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan," as President Roosevelt put it, drew
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