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How were the Japanese able to surprise the US at Pearl Harbor?

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they came early on a Sunday morning and the U.S was waiting for some of their (u.s) planes to come in so when it came on the radar that aircrafts where in the area noting came about it till it was to late

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Japanese aircraft carriers had approached Hawaii unnoticed.

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