pearl harbor (hawaii), attack on, 1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7 1941 a date which will live in infamy. Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. More than 2 000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war a conflict that engulfed the world.

Presents the stories of American and Japanese survivors ofthe attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Japanese forces on the morning of December 7, 1941, and includes photographs.

Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.

Presents an examination of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and includes American Girl Nanea's story of adjusting to life in Hawaii after the attack.

Provides a history of the attack on Pearl Harbor from the perspectives of both the United States forces and the Japanese forces.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the most important and significant events in American history. On December 7, 1941, at 7.55am Hawaiian time, the Japanese began a wave of attacks against the United States naval fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor.

Recaptures the experiences of fortyseven participants, both American and Japanese, on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

"On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the Army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war"--Provided by publisher.

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy"--NoveList.