THE TENSION: Dec. 7: Pearl Harbor Remembered on 66th Anniversary

"A date which will live in infamy"
News in Balance:

RESOURCES, IMAGE COLLECTIONS

U.S. DoD Pearl Harbor 65th Anniversary Special
Pearl Harbor Attack 65 Years Ago Presents Parallels, Lessons for Terror War

Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941
Overview and Special Image Selection
(DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY) -- The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

Pearl Harbor Attack, Index of Action Reports

Pearl Harbor Attack, Additional Action Reports

Remembering Pearl Harbor
(National Geographic) -- Multimedia Map and Time Line: Photos, footage, firsthand accounts, and narration bring the attack on Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, to life—moment by moment, target by target.

USS Arizona Memorial
(National Park Service) -- Oil droplets bubble to the surface of Pearl Harbor above the USS Arizona, creating a vivid link to the past. On a quiet Sunday morning December 7, 1941 a Japanese surprise air attack left the Pacific Fleet in smoldering heaps of broken, twisted steel. Here, peace was interrupted and paradise lost. In hours, 2,390 futures were stolen, half of these casualties from the battleship Arizona.

Pearl Harbor Memorial Panorama

Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941
(EyeWitness to History) -- The surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan.

National Museum of the Pacific War

Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund

Pacific Avation Museum, Pearl Harbor

National World War II Memorial

National Park Service: National World War II Memorial

IN THE NEWS

Survivors, Kin to Mark Pearl Harbor Attack (AP)

Today in History - Dec. 7 (AP)

Pearl Harbor dedicates new memorial today (honoluluadvertiser.com)

Never so few veterans as now to remember Pearl Harbor day (The Baltimore Sun)

Ken Taylor: The Reluctant Hero

MULTIMEDIA

Pearl Harbor Memories