7 December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

 

This is a photograph from a Japanese bomber at the start of the attack. The explosion in the center is the USS West Virginia being struck with a torpedo bomb. 

EBL: John Ford's They Were Expendable and Jim Nabors: Pearl Harbor Christmas Tribute 🎄😢

Seattle Times: Sixteen Days To Die on the USS West Virginia

Juliette Ochieng: That Such Men Lived

AoSHQ: Morning Report 12.07.22