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On December 6, they came to within 10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) of the mouth of Pearl Harbor [75] and launched their midget subs at about 01:00 local time on December 7. [76] At 03:42 Hawaiian time, the minesweeper Condor spotted a midget submarine periscope southwest of the Pearl Harbor entrance buoy and alerted the destroyer Ward .
President Roosevelt made the Infamy Speech (with its famous opening line "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,") to a Joint session of Congress. Within one hour the United States declared war on Japan. Lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war.
[7] 7 December (December 8, Asian time zones) Japan launches an attack on Pearl Harbor, declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom and invades Thailand and British Malaya and launches aerial attacks against Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Shanghai, Singapore and Wake Island. Canada declares war on Japan. Australia declares war ...
On the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, read through the events of the day as they occurred 75 years ago.
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day honors the 2,403 service members and civilians killed after Japanese forces attacked the U.S. naval base on Oahu, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. Over 1,000 other ...
On Dec. 7, 1941, he was a sailor and stood at a pivot point of history, a moment never to forget when sudden and extreme violence rendered the past irrelevant and the future an open book hinging ...
2 Tone-class heavy cruisers (8 × 7.9-in. main battery) Tone, Chikuma 1st Destroyer Squadron Rear Admiral Sentarō Ōmori 1 Nagara-class light cruiser (7 × 5.5-in. main battery) Abukuma 17th Destroyer Division 4 Kagerō-class destroyers (6 × 5-in. main battery) Urakaze, Isokaze, Tanikaze, Hamakaze 18th Destroyer Division [h]
December 7: Attack on Pearl Harbor December 8: Infamy Speech and declaration war on Japan. Wonder Woman comic begins publication. December 1 – Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air ...