Remember Pearl Harbor

Remember Pearl Harbor. December 7. 1941. , Sunday, December 7, 1941, "A date that will live in infamy” without warning, at 7:55 a.m.. approximately 355 aircraft from the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American military installations and the naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island Oahu, Hawaii. , In less than two hours the attack was over the Japanese returned home, almost unscathed, to a hero's welcome. , Twenty four hundred and three Americans had been killed. Eleven hundred seventy eight lay wounded. , Eight American battleships, four destroyers, three cruisers, many other smaller ships, along with three hundred forty seven United States aircraft were either destroyed or damaged. , This unprovoked sneak attack prompted the United States to declare war on the Japanese Empire December 8, 1941. , Donated by , The Greater Lima Pearl Harbor Survivor Chapter 9 , On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan became the target of the first atomic bomb employed over a populated area. , On August 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped over the city of Nagasaki, Japan. , On August 15, 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered to the allies.