Author: admin2

Just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu in an unprovoked move that took the lives of 2,403 Americans and wounded 1,178.  Over the next seven hours there were coordinated attacks by the Japanese on US-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island. Of the eight US Navy battleships present, all were damaged.   Four of those ships were sunk; all except the Arizona, which lost 1,177 officers and sailors, was raised.