By June 1942, Japan ruled much of the Asiatic-Pacific region and her naval and air forces lurked at the gates of Australia. With American military power temporarily blunted, Japan was free to move military forces across Southeast Asia and the Pacific basin, quickly conquering Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, parts of New Guinea and a host of small islands. Japan’s sudden and brutal attack against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday, Decemleft most of the Pacific fleet in ruins and 2,403 servicemen dead, including 1,103 entombed in the battleship Arizona.
Roosevelt to Congress – DecemJapan Attacks in the Pacific
“Yesterday, December 7,1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” President Franklin D.
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