December 6th - December 12th
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance.
A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California. On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port. Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island) and over the Navy Yard at right. U.S. Navy planes on the seaplane ramp are on fire.
By Staff | Stars and Stripes December 6, 2020
December 7th, 1941 – World War II: Japan carries out a surprise attack on United States forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
December 8th, 1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy" and declares war on Japan.
December 8th, 1941 – World War II: Japan launches concurrent attacks on Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.
December 9th, 2016 – South Korean president Park Geun-hye is impeached by the country's National Assembly.
December 10th, 1968 – Thieves in Tokyo pull off the largest heist in Japan's history, the "300 million yen robbery," which remains unsolved.
