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A sign reading: 'I AM AN AMERICAN', on the Wanto Co grocery store at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 8th December 1941.
Dec. 6—This week the Navy and the National Park Service are honoring the 82nd anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations across Hawaii by the ...
On the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, read through the events of the day as they occurred 75 years ago. Pearl Harbor: A 75th anniversary timeline of the 'date which will live in infamy ...
On Pearl Harbor Day, the American flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset to honor those who died as a result of the attack on U.S. military forces in Hawaii. [4] Pearl Harbor Day is not a federal holiday – government offices, schools, and businesses do not close. Some organizations may hold special events in memory of those killed or ...
The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day. The attack on Pearl Harbor led to the United States' involvement in World War II.
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II: Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
In 1994, U.S. Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Memorial events at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial remind the country of those who died that day and of the ...
Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History – a dissection of the various revisionist theories surrounding the attack. December 7, 1941: The Day The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor – a recollection of the attack as narrated by eyewitnesses. Day of Infamy by Walter Lord was one of the most popular nonfiction accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor. [8]