The peopled killed on the Pearl Harbor attack were non-combatant servicemen .
Charles Burress , `` Biased history helps feed U.S. fascination with Pearl Harbor '' , Japan Times , July 19 , 2001 ( accessed June 10 , 2005 ) ; In putting the Pearl Harbor attack into context , Japanese writers repeatedly contrast the thousands of U.S. non-combatant servicemen killed there with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians killed in U.S. air attacks on Japan later in the war , Hiroaki Sato , `` The View From New York : Debunking America 's 'Good War ' myth '' , Japan Times , June 25 , 2001 ( accessed June 10 , 2005 ) ; even without mentioning the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States .
Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor