Crushing blow: the attack on Pearl Harbor took place 80 years ago
2021-12-07T14:46:52.683Z
On December 7, 1941, Japanese naval aviation and a submarine fleet attacked the American military base Pearl Harbor, located in the Hawaiian Islands. For about two hours, Japanese troops, with minimal losses for themselves, inflicted blows on ships and coastal facilities of the United States, causing them serious damage. President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt called the incident "a day marked forever by shame." In historiography, the attack on Pearl Khabor is considered to be the beginning of hostilities in the Pacific theater of World War II. According to experts, the defeat of the American base was a major situational success for Japan, but this still did not allow it to gain a strategic advantage in the Pacific region.
Source: russiart