A Day That Will Live in Infamy
Today could be the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941 at 7:55 on a Sunday morning, the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by six aircraft carriers supported by submarines and battleships.
Within two hrs with the attack, the Japanese planes hit 8 U.S. battleships, such as the USS Arizona and 14 more compact ships. Two hundred aircraft were destroyed and more than 2-thousand seamen were killed. The next day in his war speech to Congress, President Franklin Roosevelt named it “a day which will live in infamy“.
