December 7th, 2021
Company: | Pacific National Monument |
Web site: | http://www.nps.gov/valr/planyourvisit/index.htm |
"A date that will live in infamy"
Nearly 200 Japanese aircrafts attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The raid left nearly 3,000 dead over the course of several hours. This attack brought immediate US entry into WWII, a declaration of war being requested by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and approved by Congress Dec. 8, 1941.