December 7th -- "A Date Which Will Live In Infamy"

 

Photos taken the day of the surprise sneak attack on the United States Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering an address to a join session of the U.S. Congress on
Monday, December 8, 1941 declaring the Japanese attack: "A date which will live in infamy".
Congress would vote to formally declare war on the Japanese Empire afterward entering
the United States of America into the Second World War.

This post is in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7th) -- Never Forget!