It’s kind of light on details but the carriers are the important bit because their goal was to hit the Pacific Fleet hard enough that America just wouldn’t bother fighting for its Pacific colonies, Japanese leadership was very much aware it couldn’t win an actual war, especially after they’d already lost two million soldiers massacring their way into a stalemate in China.
Nah. The Pearl Harbor raid didn’t achieve its actual objective, sinking the carriers, and some of the battleships they sunk were even refloated.
https://www.historyhit.com/attack-pearl-harbour/
It’s kind of light on details but the carriers are the important bit because their goal was to hit the Pacific Fleet hard enough that America just wouldn’t bother fighting for its Pacific colonies, Japanese leadership was very much aware it couldn’t win an actual war, especially after they’d already lost two million soldiers massacring their way into a stalemate in China.