Japanese Air Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, in one of the defining moments in U.S. history, the Japanese attacked "like a thunderclap from a clear sky" and removed the U.S. Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. With the attack, the United States was brought into World War II as a full combatant.
Image: 80-G-30550: Japanese Attack ot Pearl Harbor - "Battleship Row". Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
