On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii Territory. At the time, the US was a n
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941, a month before the attack, with Ford Island visible (in the center)
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor
The route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back
The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is an unproven conspiracy theory alleging that U.S. government officials had advance knowledge of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
U.S. propaganda poster calling for revenge for the Pearl Harbor attack