07/12/2023
Today in History - December 7th
AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! SHIPS AND PLANES PREPARE FOR AIR ATTACK!
20 years of growing tensions between Imperial Japan and the west over naval rights and resources culminated in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and other European holdings in the Pacific, From Manila to Rabaul to Singapore, the limited war in Europe had finally spiraled into the Second World War.
For 6 months the combined forces of Japan ran wild, capturing not only 1/7th of the worlds mass, but also American territories in Guam , Alaska and the Philippines…..It would not be until Midway in June of 1942 that the tide began to turn, but the long bloody road to Tokyo had just begun…