Pearl Harbor—A date that lives in infamy
President Franklin Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.”
On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans and decimated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It destroyed the American battleship USS Arizona and capsized the USS Oklahoma.
The attack sank or beached a total of 12 ships




