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A sign reading: 'I AM AN AMERICAN', on the Wanto Co grocery store at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 8th December 1941.
As we approach the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is what readers learned in the Dec. 8 edition of the Free Press. Flashback: The chilling news Detroiters read on the day ...
Within half an hour of the bombs falling on Hawaii, the phone rang in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s study. When the navy secretary came on the line, his voice was quavering: “Mr. President ...
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In putting the Pearl Harbor attack into context, Japanese writers repeatedly contrast the thousands of U.S. citizens killed there with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians killed in U.S. air attacks on Japan during the war, even without mentioning the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States.
The initial announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor was made by the White House Press Secretary, Stephen Early, at 2:22 p.m. Eastern time (8:52 a.m. Hawaiian time): "The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air and all naval and military activities on the island of Oahu, principal American base in the Hawaiian islands."
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, demolishing the two 110-story towers ...
After leaving the Navy in 1947, Fernandez was a cannery forklift driver in San Leandro, California. His wife of 65 years, Mary, with whom he had a step-daughter and two sons, died in 2014. [ 3 ] In 2016, Fernandez was interviewed by the History Channel for the television show Pearl Harbor: The Last Word . [ 4 ]