Friday, 7 December, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, windy, snow squalls, 22 degrees. I washed in am. Clifton and the boys cut a load of wood. Gerald came home at night.
Comment: And twenty one years before: At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A 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 against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II. I was three years, three months old.....
Interesting to think that the country that initiated the attack is now one of our closed allies....
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