"A Date Which Will Live In Infamy"

   It was a Sunday morning 75 years ago when Japanese carrier forces launched their strike against the U.S fleet at Pearl Harbour. 353 aircraft were involved. All 8 U.S battleships were damaged, other ships were also hit. In all, some 24 hundred people were killed, most of them servicemen.
   The attack also brought the U.S fully into World War II, although some historians say America would have entered the fray sooner or later. It was the next day, December 8th, then U.S president F.D Roosevelt spoke to his nation, saying it was a date which will live in infamy as he declared war on the Japanese Empire, and Nazi Germany.
   One of the most devastated capital ships, the USS Arizona:

   Still lies at the bottom of the harbour as a memorial and gravesite, since more than 11 hundred service personnel were killed on board that ship. To this day, oil from the fuel bunkers continues to escape, staining the water above.
   24 years and 1 day earlier, the port city of Halifax was devastated after 2 ships, one loaded with tons of munitions, collided in the harbour during World War I. Roughly 2 thousand people were killed, and 9 thousand injured. The explosion remained the most powerful non-natural blast until the first atom bomb test in 1945.
   Your history lesson for the day :)

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