One Year After Pearl Harbor, the Sleeping Giant Awakes

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor  reportedly wrote in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Whether or not the Admiral … Continue reading

One Year After Pearl Harbor — Launching of the Battleship USS New Jersey, December 7, 1942

On this, the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I thought that it might be interesting to look one year forward to gauge how the US responded to the attack. On December 7, 1942, American shipyards launched … Continue reading