The attack on Pearl Harbor: Unforgettable photos of the bombing
See the pics at the link.The images from that day are apocalyptic. Battleships obliterated, planes destroyed. Smoke. Flames. The next day, as the images of the carnage that killed 2,403 American men, women and children spread throughout the world, Roosevelt declared war on Japan. Not long after that, Italy and Germany declared war on the U.S.
The world was at war, and America was now in it.