The United States will mark the 80-year anniversary of the Japanese attack at the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Tuesday.
The attack on December 7, 1941, rocked a country that had focused on two World War in Europe that he had lost the views of the threats posed by Japan, according to historians.
The attack killed 2,390 Americans, and the United States said the war in Japan the following day.
On Monday the rain, a warning ceremony was held at Pearl Harbor in honor of 58 soldiers who died on the USS Utah warship, the first ship affected by attack.
“On the morning of December 7, 1941, in the first few minutes the attack on Pearl Harbor, Utah was beaten by two torpedoes, which caused serious flooding,” said the US Navy Commander Jason Adams.
“Tomich’s head lives in the engine room, keeping the boiler stabilize to allow his sailors to get off the ship.
Utah reverses 58 people in 12 minutes,” Adams said, referring to Peter Tomich, head of the ship’s watertenders.
Tomich died on board.
US naval members, veterans, friends and family members stand as the names of people who died read, respectively accompanied by the victim of the bell.
Bugle call “TAPS” was then played in a trumpet near the sinking location.
Some other memories organized by National Park Service and Navy A.S.
will be held to mark that day.
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Atomic bomb attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The US observed the 80-year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor
