Pearl Harbor Bombing

A tiny peak into the history.

Dec 7, 1941. At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese fighter plane appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A thick swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow to the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States into World War II, who had until then, signed pacts of neutrality and was watching the war from the sidelines.

Two atomic bombs rocked Japan, and the entire world, in August 1945. The first, named Little Boy…