After 75 Years, Pearl Harbor Still Holds a Few Mysteries
Five things you may not know about the day that lives in infamy.
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It's been 75 years since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Shortly before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, 353 Japanese aircraft supplemented by dozens of submarines, cruisers, destroyers, and battleships attacked America's Pacific Fleet.
Nineteen U.S. Navy ships were severely damaged or destroyed, including the USS Arizona that still remains underwater. The aftermath of the attack plunged the country into a global conflict, making it, as The New York Times reported the next morning, "...the first time in its history, the United States finds itself at war against powers in both the Atlantic and the Pacific." In all, 2,403 people died in the attack.
Seventy-five years later, we look at five lesser-known facts about Pearl Harbor and about that one December day in the Pacific that changed the course of world history.
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