Did Frankin Delano Roosevelt Provoke Pearl Harbor? (Is This A Trick Question?)
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US naval base, Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
On that fateful morning exactly 70 years ago, 6 Japanese aircraft carriers, of the strike force known as Kido Butai, consisting of the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku, and Zuikaku, launched two strikes of some 351 aircraft from a point approximately 150 miles north of Oahu. At exactly 7:55 am, Hawaiian time, the strike planes arrived over the Pearl Harbor naval base, and sent back the signal to the Kido Butai that total surprise had been achieved by the words: "Tora Tora Tora"!
Once the attacks were completed, 7 American World War I vintage battleships, including the Pennsylvania, Arizona, California, Maryland, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, were sunk or severely damaged. Over 2400 American service men and women were dead, and thousands more wounded. America was suddenly thrust into a war with Imperial Japan.
В США проходят траурные церемонии в честь 70-й годовщины Перл-Харбора
