Japan bombed the US naval base Pearl Harbor

Spotlight: A date which will live in infamy... President Franklin D. Roosevelt used these words to describe Sunday, December 7, 1941, the date on which Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the southern coast of Hawaii. More than 2,300 people were killed (including 68 civilians) and 1,100 wounded in the surprise attack. The US Congress declared war on Japan the next day, officially entering World War II.

Quote: "Take a good look at Pearl Harbor. Maybe it's something you'll want to remember." — John Ridgely, as Captain Quincannon in Dudley Nichols' 1943 film Air Force