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This was the date in 1941 that Japanese forces attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii and other British and American territories and possessions in the Pacific.
Facts about: Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbour was called Wai Momi ("pearl waters") by the Hawaiians because of the pearl oysters that once grew there. In 1840 Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the U.S. Navy made the first geodetic survey and urged the dredging of the coral-bar entrance to the harbour. About 30 years later, Colonel John McAllister Schofield further recommended that the United States secure harbour rights. A subsequent treaty (1887) granted the United States the exclusive use of the harbour as a coaling and repair station; however, work was not begun until after 1898, when the Spanish-American War indicated its strategic value as a Pacific base. A naval station was established after 1908, and a dry-dock was completed in 1919.
Silky
Facts about: Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbour was called Wai Momi ("pearl waters") by the Hawaiians because of the pearl oysters that once grew there. In 1840 Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the U.S. Navy made the first geodetic survey and urged the dredging of the coral-bar entrance to the harbour. About 30 years later, Colonel John McAllister Schofield further recommended that the United States secure harbour rights. A subsequent treaty (1887) granted the United States the exclusive use of the harbour as a coaling and repair station; however, work was not begun until after 1898, when the Spanish-American War indicated its strategic value as a Pacific base. A naval station was established after 1908, and a dry-dock was completed in 1919.
Silky
