This week in history

December 7, 1941, Japanese Naval aircraft attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The first official word of the attack came from Admiral Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was a quickly worded dispatch, “AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”

More than 2,300 were killed. Extensive damage occurred across the naval base. U.S.S. Arizona destroye...