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The Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Attack on Pearl Harbor
US Navy / National Archives

Day of Infamy
At 7:58 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, the alarm went out: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is not drill!" Later that morning, the magazine of the U.S.S. Shaw exploded after being struck by a Japanese bomb.

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