70 Years Ago Today: December 7, 1941: The Day of Infamy - Attack on Pearl Harbor
It is, arguably, the saddest day in U.S. military history -- certainly in modern U.S. military history -- the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg probably is the saddest. The day:
"Sunday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy," President Franklin D. Roosevelt said at the time.
And it has. Seventy years ago today, on Sunday, December 7, 1941, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, was, as FDR put it, "suddenly and deliberately attacked," by the Empire of Japan.
2,402 U.S. Armed Forces Killed in Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack triggered the U.S.'s entrance into World War II, with the U.S. declaring war on Japan on Dec. 8. The U.S. did not declare war on Japan's Axis partner Nazi Germany until Adolf Hitler declared war on the U.S. three days later.
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