This Day in History: <br />Pearl Harbor Is Bombed December 7, 1941 360 Japanese warplanes carried out the Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at <br />Pearl Harbor. 2,400 Americans <br />were killed in the <br />attack and another <br />1,200 were wounded. Five U.S. battleships, three destroyers and seven other ships were either destroyed or sunk. Japan lost fewer <br />than 100 men <br />during the attack. The next day, following President Franklin Roosevelt's "Infamy" speech, Congress recognized a state of war between the U.S. and Japan. America had entered <br />World War II. Three days later, <br />war was declared on <br />the U.S. by Germany and Italy. The American contribution <br />to the successful Allied war<br />effort cost more than <br />400,000 American lives.
