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The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Just before on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. And than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
