Dec. 7, 1941 marks the date in history when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor ushering the United States into World War II.
Earlier, in May 1940, Hitler had invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen. France would soon follow.
England’s newly elected Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, knew that in order to keep Germany at bay he would need America to enter the war. England stood alone.
For more than a year prior to 1941, Churchill beseeched then President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt to send more than well wishes. Roosevelt, while sympathetic, governed a country weary of war with no desire to get involved in another. That sentiment changed on that fateful Sunday morning in Hawaii when the undetected Japanese carriers launched their bombers on the American fleet….