“Man your battle stations! This is no sh*t!”

This is the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 

It’s 7:55 on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. 183 Japanese aircraft descend on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Sailors awaken to a nightmare as “Battleship Row” becomes a graveyard, hundreds of US planes are destroyed without ever leaving the ground, and the cries of thousands of dying, wounded, and terrified Americans rend the air. It is a day that will “live in infamy.” And it means war.

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History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

DEC 7, 202563 MIN
History That Doesn't Suck

194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

DEC 7, 202563 MIN

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“Man your battle stations! This is no sh*t!”

This is the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 

It’s 7:55 on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. 183 Japanese aircraft descend on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Sailors awaken to a nightmare as “Battleship Row” becomes a graveyard, hundreds of US planes are destroyed without ever leaving the ground, and the cries of thousands of dying, wounded, and terrified Americans rend the air. It is a day that will “live in infamy.” And it means war.

____

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