Cherishing a piece of Pearl Harbor history in Havasu

Cherishing a piece of Pearl Harbor history in Havasu

The date of Dec. 7, 1941 made history with the unsuspecting attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. What has since become immortalized in historical films and cinematic reenactments was deemed a significant loss of American…

This Day in History: Pearl Harbor Is Bombed

This Day in History:, Pearl Harbor Is Bombed. December 7, 1941. 360 Japanese warplanes carried out the Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack. Another 1,200 were wounded. Five U.S. battleships, three destroyers and seven other ships were either destroyed or sunk. Japan lost fewer than 100 men during the attack. The next day, following President Franklin Roosevelt's "Infamy…

This Day in History: Pearl Harbor Is Bombed

This Day in History:, Pearl Harbor Is Bombed. December 7, 1941. 360 Japanese warplanes carried out the Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack. Another 1,200 were wounded. Five U.S. battleships, three destroyers and seven other ships were either destroyed or sunk. Japan lost fewer than 100 men during the attack. The next day, following President Franklin Roosevelt's "Infamy…

On this day in history Pearl Harbor bombed

At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu.