Pearl Harbor By The Numbers

A day that does indeed live in infamy

USS West Virginia languishes after being struck by torpedoes (Public domain)

President Franklin Roosevelt prophetically said that December 7th, 1941 was a day that would live in infamy. And to this day, it still does. The attack at Pearl Harbor was equal parts brutal and effective. The surprise attack shocked the United States and plunged the other half of the globe into a new phase of a devastating war.