Pearl Harbor: Lembrar o dia da infâmia

Sixty-nine years ago today, the military forces of Japan conducted a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor was proposed by Japanese Adm. Yamamoto Isoroku as a means of furthering Japanese aims in Southeast Asia. Yamamoto had spent some years in the United States, studying English at Harvard University and serving as a naval attaché in Washington, D.C., and he had developed certain views that colored his prediction of how the United States would respond to such an attack. He correctly perceived that American industrial might would prove to be Japan’s undoing in a long war. However, his incorrect assumptions about the caliber of American naval officers and American resolve in the wake of such an attack made exactly that kind of war a virtual certainty.» Read more of A Date Which Will Live in Infamy: Pearl Harbor (Picture Essay of the Day)