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19417 December 1941 · Pearl Harbor, Oahu

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Japanese reconnaissance photograph of Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor during the attack on 7 December 1941
Archival image: Unknown author. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Japanese carrier aircraft attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on a Sunday morning, sinking or damaging 19 ships and killing more than 2,400 Americans, 1,177 of them on the battleship Arizona. The United States declared war on Japan the next day, and Germany declared war on the United States days later, turning separate wars into a global one.

Sites

  1. Site 1: USS Arizona MemorialMemorial over the sunken battleship, which still seeps oil.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Battleship Missouri MemorialBattleship on whose deck Japan surrendered in 1945.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford IslandHangars with windows still marked by strafing bullets.Map ↗

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