For all its overwhelming industrial and mercantile dominance, the United States remained a tenth-rate military power (except for its navy) until galvanized by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

比如，由于拥有压倒性的工业与商业优势，直到日本袭击珍珠港之前，美国一直是个低等军事国家（海军除外）。

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The smoke was seen by United States navy ships a few miles outside Charleston Harbor. They had come with the ship bringing food for the men at Sumter.

在查尔斯顿港口几里之外的美国海军看到了萨姆特堡上空的浓烟，这些美国海军正在向萨姆特堡运送给养。

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The fleet was assembling near the Ryukyu Islands, waiting to launch a fatal surprise attack on the US Navy, to repeat Pearl Harbor and Leyte Gulf.

这个舰队正在琉球群岛附近集结，准备对美国海军发起一次致命的突袭，重演珍珠港和雷伊泰湾事件。

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The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

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The smoke was seen by United States navy ships a few miles outside Charleston Harbor.

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Today, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam supports Air Force and Navy missions.

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But, according to an Army history, the Navy was still in shambles after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and no ships were capable of bringing reinforcements.

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Moreover, the government of Sudan was found liable by a US federal judge in the deaths of 17 U.S. Navy sailors in the Al Qaeda terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Aden Harbor in 2000.

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