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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.
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 ...
On 13 August 1941, she was transferred to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One (MTBRon 1) under the command of Lt. William C. Specht and assigned to Pearl Harbor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the attack on Pearl Harbor , PT-42 was already loaded on the replenishment oiler Ramapo for MTBRon 1's assignment to the Philippines and as she could not get her motors ...
President Biden is set to give remarks Friday honoring American veterans and their families a day before the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Biden is attending a special live ...
Lockard was the subject of a 1 February 1942 Associated Press article revealing to the American public the identity of the U.S. soldier who "detected Japanese planes approaching Pearl Harbor while he was practicing at the listening device the morning of Dec. 7 only to have his warning disregarded." [11]
Operation K (K作戦, Kē-Sakusen) was a Japanese naval operation in World War II, intended as reconnaissance of Pearl Harbor and disruption of repair and salvage operations following the surprise attack on 7 December 1941.
The attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years later. According to the 75th commemoration website, these are the events scheduled for Wednesday: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Commemoration: 7:45 a.m ...
December 7th is a 1943 propaganda documentary film produced by the US Navy and directed by Gregg Toland and John Ford, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War II. Toland was also the film's cinematographer and co-writer.