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USS Shaw explodes at Pearl Harbor
The destroyer USS Shaw exploding in floating drydock during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (U.S. Navy) · Public domain · colorized

Japan's Gamble · December 7 to 11, 1941

Pearl Harbor

Japan strikes the American fleet to keep the United States out of its way, and brings it into the war instead.

“…a date which will live in infamy”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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