7 December 1941
Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
“A date which will live in infamy”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his speech to the Congress of the United States requesting a declaration of war against Japan.
“I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
(The source of this quote cannot be found but it is attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor)
LEST WE FORGET
The attack killed 2,403 U.S. personnel, including 68 civilians
Pearl Harbor under attack
Official US Navy photograph.
While attributed to many including film found in a Brownie camera in the footlocker of sailor long after the war this and the other photographs in set are official US Navy photos released into the public domain decades ago).
