“A day that will live in infamy.”
Early in the morning on Dec. 7, 1941, Japan's Imperial Navy launched a surprise airstrike on the US military base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. As a result, 2,403 Americans were killed, and more than 1,000 were wounded.
The United States had considered itself neutral in World War II up until that point and entered battle the following day on the side of the Allied forces. Of the eight Navy battleships stationed at Pearl Harbor at the time, four were sunk in the attack. All but theEighty years later, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US's involvement in WWII show a long and complicated legacy. Americans responded with horror and began fully preparing themselves to enter the war.
The ocean burns from oil near the Naval Air Station, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941.An incendiary bomb from a Japanese plane set fire to a drug store near Waikiki, Honolulu, creating some of the greatest wreckage in the attack on Oahu, Dec. 7, 1941. Flames spread over a wide area before the fire department brought it under control.White House reporters dash for the telephones after being told by press secretary Stephen T.
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