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Video: Newscast Following Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack

by Amy Chan3/14/20163/31/2016

(U.S. Navy/National Archives) Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a Zero Fighter. This is probably the launch of the second attack wave. The original photograph was captured on Attu in 1943.

(Img: U.S. Navy/National Archives) On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed the military base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Prior to the attack, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had expressed the desire for the U.S. to remain neutral but the attack caused Congress to declare war the following day. President Roosevelt termed this day, “a date which will live in infamy.”