Pearl Harbor Remembrance

Governor Andy Beshear has announced that flags at state office buildings will be flown at half-staff today in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.The attack on Pearl Harbor, which occurred on December 7, 1941, a Sunday, was a surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on a Naval Station in Honolulu, Hawaii.The attack, which happened without a declaration of war, killed 2,403 American servicemen and civilians and injured 1,178 others while sinking four U.S. Navy battleships.

Source: MG News

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