Why wasn’t the japanese Navy able to cripple the US Navy?

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Explanation:

The plan was simple: Destroy the Pacific Fleet so that the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan's military spread across the South Pacific. By the time the attack was over, every battleship in Pearl Harbor had sustained significant damage. But the Japanese had failed to cripple the Pacific Fleet.

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