“War, war, war has been the all important topic of everyone since Sunday afternoon when the radios started broadcasting the news that Pearl Harbor and the Hawaiian Islands had been bombed by Japanese planes. Everyone knew that strained relations existed between the United States and Japan but no one was[Read More…]
Tag: Pearl Harbor Day
‘A date which will live in infamy.’ ~ Dec. 7, 1941
Saturday marks 78 years since the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu, Hawaii, that killed 2,403 service members and civilians and injured 1,178. Two battleships, the USS Arizona and the USS Utah, were permanently sunk during the attack and 188 aircraft were destroyed. Multiple[Read More…]