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Tatsuro Matsuda, a US citizen of Japanese descent & owner of the Wanto grocery store in Oakland, California, wants to show where he stands in the newly declared war against Japan:
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Japanese bombers have hit American bases at the Philippines, catching Far East Air Force on ground, despite warnings: over half US planes in Manila have been destroyed. youtube.com/watch?v=epbZn3vI…

" MANILA BOMBED!" WWII INVASION OF PHILIPPINES BY JAPANESE & PROFILE...

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Manila unprepared for bombing; civilians caught in parks "take shelter" around acacia trees, some ladies are opening parasols to huddle under.
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President Roosevelt has addressed US Congress: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly & deliberately attacked by naval & air forces of the Empire of Japan."
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Following President's request, US Congress has voted for war with Japan, by 470-1. Only Senator or Congressman to vote against war is pacifist Jeanette Rankin: "As a woman I can't go to war, & I refuse to send anyone else."
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Rankin- the first woman ever elected to Congress- was followed out of the Capitol chamber by a mob angry at her anti-war vote; she's had to take shelter in a phone booth to call police.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has declared war on Japan for their "calculated & characteristic Japanese treachery" in attacking Pearl Harbor & British colony of Malaya: api.parliament.uk/historic-h…

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Some MPs protest the ceremonial formality of Britain's declaration of war on Japan; Churchill responds: "When you have to kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite."
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60,000 Japanese troops are marching from mainland China into British colony of Hong Kong- they outnumber defenders almost 4-to-1.
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Britain's Far East empire has been stripped of troops to reinforce North Africa- Hong Kong's "symbolic garrison" is just 14,000 men.
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Winston Churchill calls Roosevelt to confirm news of Pearl Harbor attack- President confirms: "We're all in the same boat now". Churchill: "Being saturated & satiated with emotion & sensation, I went to bed & slept the sleep of the saved & thankful."
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~60 Hawaiian civilians dead in Pearl Harbor, some strafed by Japanese planes, but mostly killed by faulty, falling American anti-aircraft shells.
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In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, citizens hurry in shocked silence to buy first editions of the newspapers reporting outbreak of war with Japan:
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was over in little more than two hours. Over 2,400 Americans are dead, all 8 of the US Navy's battleships in Hawaii damaged, 4 sunk. 188 US planes destroyed. 29 Japanese attackers were shot down.
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White House press corps, just told of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, are rushing to phones to contact editors:
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Destroyer USS Shaw, set afire by bombing, has exploded, scattering debris half a mile across Oahu island.
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Army Nurse Corps Lt. Madelyn Blonskey, Oahu: "As I stepped out of the nurses’ quarters, I had an awful feeling. Usually, the smell of gardenias & hibiscus from the garden was delightful. But I smelled the odor of sulfur & burning oil."
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"More bloody shrapnel wounds than I ever saw in my life." Nurses at Pearl Harbor hurriedly give the wounded morphine, marking each anesthetized man with a lipstick "M" on his forehead. military.com/history/madelyn…

Madelyn Blonskey: Veteran Story

Second Lieutenant Madelyn Blonskey of the Army Nurse Corps was at the nurses’ quarters about 6 miles from Battleship Row when the Pearl Harbor attack began.

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Japanese trying to sink battleship USS Nevada in mouth of Pearl Harbor, to block channel & stop ships entering the port- instead, crew have deliberately run her aground:
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