{"id":1150,"date":"2015-12-07T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/12\/07\/a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy-74\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:09","slug":"a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"A Day That Will Live In Infamy &#8211; 74th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9915,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.history.navy.mil\\\/our-collections\\\/photography\\\/wars-and-events\\\/world-war-ii\\\/pearl-harbor-raid\\\/japanese-forces-in-the-pearl-harbor-attack.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.history.navy.mil:443\\\/our-collections\\\/photography\\\/wars-and-events\\\/world-war-ii\\\/pearl-harbor-raid\\\/japanese-forces-in-the-pearl-harbor-attack.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9916,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.defensemedianetwork.com\\\/stories\\\/pearl-harbor-the-army-air-forces-fight-back&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260215081158\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.defensemedianetwork.com\\\/stories\\\/pearl-harbor-the-army-air-forces-fight-back\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 18:17:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 00:49:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 00:49:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9917,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Pearl_Harbor_Survivors_Association&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9918,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.navsource.org\\\/Naval\\\/pearl.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9919,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Battle_of_Wake_Island&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9920,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ww2db.com\\\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=47&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260202195716\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ww2db.com\\\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=47&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 18:18:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 00:49:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 00:49:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9921,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Dutch_East_Indies_campaign&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9922,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ww2db.com\\\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=46&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ww2db.com\\\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=46&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ww2db.com\\\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=56&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ww2db.com\\\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=56&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n74 years ago today, on December 7th, 1941, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/our-collections\/photography\/wars-and-events\/world-war-ii\/pearl-harbor-raid\/japanese-forces-in-the-pearl-harbor-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fighters and bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy<\/a> attacked the US Pacific Fleet in their home port of Pearl Harbor at 7:55am local time. IJN fighters and bombers also attacked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensemedianetwork.com\/stories\/pearl-harbor-the-army-air-forces-fight-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Army Air Force installations<\/a> at Hickham, Wheeler, Bellows, and other air fields destroying most of the aircraft on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the veterans on both sides have now passed away due to age. The National Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearl_Harbor_Survivors_Association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disbanded <\/a>at the end of 2011 due to the advanced age of the remaining survivors.<\/p>\n<p>One of the few live broadcasts of the attack was from KGU Radio in Honolulu.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"290\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/f371368e-2078-11e1-bf01-d1f1fb17a468\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nA list of the ships of the Pacific Fleet in port on December 7th can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navsource.org\/Naval\/pearl.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here <\/a>along with the damage suffered. As bad as the attack was, most of the battleships went on to fight again later in the war.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Wake_Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wake Island<\/a> began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor. The IJN and the Japanese Imperial Army launched widespread attacks beginning December 8th on the British in <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2db.com\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malaya <\/a>, the Dutch in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_East_Indies_campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dutch East Indies<\/a> (Indonesia), and the Americans and Filipinos in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2db.com\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philipines <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2db.com\/battle_spec.php?battle_id=56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One immediate impact of the attack was that the industrial base of the United States shifted from a peacetime to a wartime footing. The propaganda poster below was meant to urge workers on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GiveembothbaRRELLS-1024x770.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GiveembothbaRRELLS-1024x770.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>74 years ago today, on December 7th, 1941, fighters and bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the US&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[563,566],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10547,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/10547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}