AIR RAID! THIS IS NO DRILL!

(Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) The opening moments of the attack:


Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, 12/7/41
A torpedo explodes in an attack of the USS Oklahoma along 'Battleship Row.' Torpedo bombers can be seen in the center and right.

The picture was taken by a Japanese pilot a few minutes after 8:00am, local time (1pm EST), on December 7, 1941. Almost 3,000 people died in the attack on that 'day of infamy.'

Remember December 7th.