Timeline Sunday 7 December 1941

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Sunday 7 December 1941

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Events on Sunday 7 December 1941 1

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Japan brings USA into the war Japan launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, killing 2,403 Americans and destroying 19 ships. President Roosevelt called it "a date which will live in infamy".

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