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Pearl Harbour
Japan attacked the US naval base of Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 - 'a day that will live in infamy', according to President Roosevelt. The attack brought America into the Second World War (Germany and Italy declared war on America a few days later).
When pearl harbor happened the USA decided that they needed to help the other allied countries fight in world war II!
The USS Arizona was the US naval battleship sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The vessel remains in Pearl Harbor, on the island of O'ahu, west of Honolulu, as a memorial to the attack and to the 1,177 men who died. The memorial includes a museum, two theaters, a bookstore, and exhibits commemorating the attack. See "related links" for further information.
7:55amThe first aerial bombs fell on Pearl Harbor at 07:48 a.m. Hawaii time, December 7th, 1941.But there was an earlier sortie by midget 2-man submarine, and the timing of those is a little murky. The midgets were launched from their mother subs about 01:00 a.m. Hawaii time. At 03:42 a.m. the minesweeper USS Condor sighted a periscope in her wake as she entered the harbor and alerted USS Ward, the destroyer on picket. USS Ward shelled and sank a midget at 06:37 a.m. Some scholars consider that USS Ward's sinking of the midget at 06:37 a.m. constituted the first shot of the war for the United States.9:457:55 a.M.