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Pearl Harbor Attack Remembered 70 Years Later
Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor in which more than 2,400 people died. The surprise attack by the Japanese -- described by President Franklin Roosevelt as a "date which will live in infamy" -- brought the U.S. into World War II.
- Dec. 6, 2011: The USS Utah Memorial is seen before the start of an internment ceremony for Pearl Harbor survivor Lee Soucy in Honolulu. Soucy, who died last year at the age of 90, wanted to have his ashes interred inside the USS Utah, his ship that sank during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.read moreAPShare
- Dec. 7, 1941: A small boat rescues a crew member from the water as heavy smoke rolls out of the stricken USS West Virginia after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Two men can be seen on the superstructure, upper center. The mast of the USS Tennessee is beyond the burning West Virginia.read moreAP1941Share
- Dec. 6, 2011: Leo Scheer, left, and John Hacker share their memories about first hearing the news on December 7, 1941, that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Scheer joined the Navy and served as a medic during the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach. Hacker, a high school sophomore at the time of the attack, got a farming deferral, but later served with the Army in Korea. The two men now live at the Heritage of Huntington nursing home in Huntington, Ind.read more
- Nov. 22, 2011: Frank A. Chebetar, 90, sits down during a weekly visit to the Pearl Harbor Memorial at the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek- Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va. Chebetar, 90, was a ships cook aboard the destroyer Phelps at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He pays a visit to the memorial each week to shine the bell. And on this day, he was making last minute preparations for the annual remembrance ceremony on Dec. 7.read more
- Among the mementos Paul Moore has kept over the years is a postcard he sent home two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Moore, 90, of Chesapeake was a young sailor aboard the battleship West Virginia when it was sunk by Japanese torpedos on December 7,1941.read moreAP2011Share
- This Nov. 29, 2011, photo taken in in Greenfield, Iowa, shows a page of photos showing World War II Navy veteran Clarence Pfundheller taken in November of 1941. Now 91, Pfundheller will be returning to Pearl Harbor on Wednesday or the 70th anniversary ceremony. Accompanying him will be fellow survivors, other World War II veterans, and a handful of college students to hear their stories.read moreAPShare
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Pearl Harbor Attack Remembered 70 Years Later
Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor in which more than 2,400 people died. The surprise attack by the Japanese -- described by President Franklin Roosevelt as a "date which will live in infamy" -- brought the U.S. into World War II.
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