Pearl Harbor 1941-2011
A Trans-Pacific view for a moment...
On December 7th 1941, Japan attacked American forces at Pearl Harbor.
The surprise attack on the Hawaiian Islands, crippled the U.S. Navy fleet, stunned the country, and reawakened an isolationist America. Over 2,200 American sailors and airmen were killed that day in the bombings. The USA was now at war.
A decade earlier in 1931 Japan;'s militarists began their dismemberment of China with the move into Manchuria. Then in 1937, Tokyo went for the rest of China.
Free China fought on with the hope of eventual American assistance.
By 1941, Japan had invaded French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies.
And in amazing military coordination after the bombing of the U.S. fleet in Hawaii, the Japanese carried out a series of attacks on Manila, Malaya, and Hong Kong.
It's been 70 years, but Americans should pause and Remember.
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