PEARL HARBOR DECEMBER 7 1941

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PEARL HARBORDECEMBER 7 1941

• A date which will live in infamy
• -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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DECEMBER 7, 1941 - THE NEWS ARRIVES
At 755 A.M., Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked
by Japanese Troops by Air Assault, bomber jets,
and torpedo bombers. At 854 A.M., another wave
of attacks occurred. The telegram to the left
was the first message of the attack, reading
AIRRAID ON PEARL HARBOR, THIS IS NO DRILL.
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The December 7th Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor
was one of the great defining moments in history.
A single attack that was well planned and
executed weakened the United States Navy's
battleship force, which was a great threat to the
Japanese military in the war which had already
been proceeding. America, unprepared and now
considerably weakened, was quickly brought into
World War II as a prominent player in the war
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A5M Claude
This A5M Claude Bomber plane was used by the
Japanese during the attacks. Mitsubishi produced
over 1,000 of these, and almost all were used in
Pearl Harbor or the Battle of Midway.
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U.S.S. ARIZONA
The USS Arizona had been stationed at Pearl
Harbor when the attacked occurred. The Arizona
was sunk, along with 1100 of its crewmen.
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Below The USS Shaw explodes.
Above The USS West Virginia is attacked during
the raid.
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• The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor
  was one of the great defining moments in history.
  A single carefully-planned and well-executed
  stroke removed the United States Navy's
  battleship force as a possible threat to the
  Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America,
  unprepared and now considerably weakened, was
  abruptly brought into the Second World War as a
  full combatant.
• Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D.
  Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet
  to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to
  Japanese aggression. The Japanese military,
  deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it
  had started against China in mid-1937, badly
  needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial
  access to these was gradually curtailed as the
  conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western
  powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From
  then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to
  seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and
  Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually
  inevitable.