Pearl Harbor: Documenting 70 Years Of Infamy
Official records detail the December 7, 1941 attack
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
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Pearl Harbor Documents
DECEMBER 7--With today marking the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, TSG is reprising a collection of U.S. government records documenting the 1941 attack and its aftermath.
The documents, stored at the National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, provide a chilling account of “A date which will live in infamy." The attack left 2400 Americans dead and forced the United States into World War II.
The individual documents are briefly described in the below link lines.
The records include a February 1941 Navy memo about a rumored Pearl Harbor attack, a December 7, 1941 White House memorandum to FDR reporting that, “The Japs attacked Honolulu,” and a draft of the president's remarks to Congress (complete with FDR's handwritten revisions).
Other documents include eyewitness accounts of the Pearl Harbor carnage, as well as Navy "after-action" reports prepared by the commanders of bombed ships.
THE DOCUMENTS:
Memo notes a "Rumored Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
"A date which will live in infamy."
USS Arizona crewman recalls "bodies of the dead."
Sergeant describes carnage on ship's deck
List of "Material Damage" to USS Arizona
After-action report on capsized USS Oklahoma
USS Tennessee's attack chronology
Trapped crewman saved from USS Utah
A note to the USS Helena's crew