COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL DECEMBER 6, 2017
The attack on Pearl Harbor
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Landmark in 1989.
Pearl Harbor and
Hawaii historic sites
In Honolulu:
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Impe-
• The USS Missouri Memorial, is the last battleship
rial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked Naval Station
built nicknamed the «Mighty Mo». The surren-
Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, without warning In Pearl Harbor:
der of the Japanese on the deck of the USS Mis-
and without a declaration of war, killing 2,403 Ameri- • T he USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor
souri brought the end of World War II.
can non-combatants, and injuring 1,178 others. The at-
is a marble memorial over the sunken
•
The USS Bowfin Submarine
Museum and Park, is in
tack sank two U.S. Navy battleships and damaged five
battleship USS Arizona, which was dedicated
remembrance of an American submarine that
others. It also damaged three cruisers, three destroyers,
on May 30, 1962 (“Memorial Day”) in honor of
sunk 44 ships in World War II.
and one minelayer. Aircraft losses were 188 destroyed
the 1,177 crew members who were killed. The
and 159 damaged.
memorial remembers all military personnel
who were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack.
• The USS Oklahoma Memorial is in remembrance of
Aftermath
a battleship that was sunk which lost 429 men
Canada declared war on Japan within hours of the at-
on December 7, 1941.
tack on Pearl Harbor, the first Western nation to do so.
On December 8, the United States declared war on Ja- • The USS Utah Memorial, is in remembrance of a
battleship that was sunk in the attack on De-
pan and entered World War II on the side of the Allies.
cember 7, 1941. A memorial to honor the
In a speech to Congress, President Franklin D. Roos-
crew including the 58 who died aboard the
evelt called the bombing of Pearl Harbor “a date which
USS Utah was dedicated on the northwest shore
will live in infamy.”
of Ford Island, near the ship’s wreck, in 1972.
The ship was added to the National Register of
Historic Places and declared a National Historic
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