At 7:55 Am Honolulu time, 63 years ago today the first of two waves of Japanese attack bombers began dropping bombs on the Hawaiian islands. Flying off of the aircraft carriers Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Shokaku, Soryu and Zuikaku, Japanese aircraft ended their attacks at 8:25 AM. In a mere thirty minutes over 2400 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines were killed, the battleships Arizona and Oklahoma were sunk along with sixteen other vessels, and over 180 aircraft were destroyed.
The United States was now a World War II combatant.
Remember Pearl Harbor.
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