A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Today marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  In it, 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 Americans were killed, 1,282 were wounded.  The United States declared war on Japan the following day, formally entering into World War II.

To learn more about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, try the following resources:

• Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Eyewitness to History)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (Holt)
• Learn about Pearl Harbor (Pearson)
• My Story: Pearl Harbor (Scholastic)
• Pearl Harbor (History Channel)
• Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation (American Rhetoric)​

All of my posts on World War II can be found here.