CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Governor Maura Healey has ordered all U.S. American and Massachusetts flags to be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
December 7th is the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.” Until then the United States had stayed out of the growing war in Europe and away from the aggression of the empire of Japan in the Pacific.
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In the early morning hours of December 7, hundreds of Japanese bombers led a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii. Twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific fleet were sunk or damaged, including five of our eight battleships.
The USS Arizona took a direct hit and lost more than 1,100 crewmen. More than 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack and some 1,100 more were wounded. The horror of that day drew the United States into World War II declaring war against Japan and then Germany deadly conflicts that took four years to resolve.