“A date that will live in infamy” was how Franklin Delano Roosevelt described Dec 7, 1941 – the day that Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbour, killing 2,403 US personnel, including 68 civilians.
In response, the United States launched an all-out war on Japan that culminated in the use of the atomic bomb. It is widely estimated that about 70,000 people were killed in Hiroshima alone.
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