Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 Ford Island is seen in this aerial view during the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941 in Hawaii. The photo was taken from a Japanese plane.
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 ...
The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/01/14). Date: 27 January 2014, 07:15: Source: Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II .
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 ...
Just after 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes flew over Pearl Harbor in Hawaii dropping bombs on ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet below. ... How many people died during Pearl Harbor? In 1941 ...
Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941; Declarations of war during World War II; Honolulu; USS West Virginia (BB-48) History of Oceania; History of the United States Coast Guard; Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) List of bibliographies on American history (Non-articlespace) Draft:List of attacks on the United States and the Main Page on December ...
Roosevelt's description of December 7, 1941, as "a date which will live in infamy" was borne out; the date became shorthand for the Pearl Harbor attack in much the same way that November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001, became inextricably associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the September 11 attacks.