Show Pearl Harbor Events Fade Fad II Perhaps Dec will mean less and less as the years go by but for all aU Americans who remember that day in 1941 it will always be the day of oC infamy as President Franklin Roosevelt described it in asking for Cor a declaration of war against Japan TIlE THE JAPANESE sent a fleet to strike Pearl Harbor the U US U.S. S Navy base in the Pacific on or about Nov end The Japanese Government continued continued continued con con- to negotiate with U. U U U. S S. S officials in Wash giving the impression there was a chance differences would be settled EARLY ON the morning of the Japanese aircraft appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap over the Ule battleships and other ships of oC the U U. S S. fleet Cleet which were tied up in neat rows fortunately U U. S. S carriers were at sea sea and wrecked many of oC the ships killing thousands of oC Americans in the process This was the sneak method the Japanese had used to attack Russia l in 1 1005 This time however the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- Japanese anese had bitten off more than they could chew Though they won victory after victory in the opening of the war the tide turned against them at Midway June 1942 and on I 1942 1943 and a massive i U U. S S. S military steamroller Iler began began be began be- be gan moving steadily toward Japan island hopping from Crom I Ione one place to another along the thelong thelong long road I THOUGH Japanese soldiers I and sailors fought with great I usually bravery refusing to I surrender U.S. US U.S. forces Corces defeated them time after time sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times out large garrisons gar gar- garrisons j to the last man i But the cost was heavy and many American families I Iare are lonelier today because of oC dear ones lost in the greatest greatest great great- est of oC world wars begun begun- for America on the a Sunday in 1941 i |