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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day and thus entering World ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.
The USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor.. Pearl Harbor National Memorial is a unit of the National Park System of the United States on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act removed the site from the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument on March 12, 2019, and made it a separate national memorial. [1]
It is the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Here's why we remember. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: Why Tennessee flags will fly at half staff in honor of Dec. 7, 1941
See historical photos of the day which President Franklin Roosevelt would later call "a date which will live in infamy." Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: Historical photos show the Dec. 7, 1941 ...
Clovis Veterans Memorial District hosts Atwater survivor of Dec. 7, 1941 attack. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: ‘Sure, I was scared. But I was doing it for my country’
USS Arizona Memorial. 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 ...
Dec. 8—Thomas Leatherman, superintendent of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, told attendees that "as each year passes we say goodbye to more and more of our friends who served here on Dec. 7 ...