A surprise aerial attack in 1941 pulled the United States into World War II
The quiet of a Sunday morning in Hawaii was shattered in 1941 by a devastating aerial bombardment that forced a neutral United States into the fires of the Second World War.
On December 7, 1941, over 350 Japanese aircraft launched a massive strike against the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted just two hours but claimed 2,403 lives and crippled the American naval presence in the Pacific. This event instantly unified a divided American public, leading President Roosevelt to declare it a 'date which will live in infamy.'
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