06/12/2022
Just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II the next day.
The casualties and death toll ramped up at 2,403 U.S. personnel, including sailors, soldiers and civilians. Additionally, 1,178 people were wounded. 129 Japanese soldiers were killed. Half of the dead at Pearl Harbor were on the USS Arizona.
