WAR DECLARED!
Pearl Harbor
Bombed!
HONOLULU—U.S.
Pacific Fleet is attacked by the Empire of Japan. Shortly before 8 a.m. local
time on December 7, carrier-based warplanes of the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed
Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hickam Field, Wheeler Field, and other military
installations in Hawaii. Reports state over 1,500 killed; that
number likely to increase. The Japanese also carried out attacks on American,
British, and other Allied outposts across the Pacific, including the Philippine
Islands. President Roosevelt, addressing Congress at 12:30 Washington, D.C.,
time today, declared December 7th as “…a date which will live in infamy…” and asked
for a declaration of war, which Congress granted within an hour of the
president’s address.
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