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Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Pearl Harbor anniversary

Posted by on December 7 at 9:39 AM

Today’s the 64th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. National Geographic’s multimedia attack map and timeline is pretty good, beginning at 0342 hours, when an officer on the U.S. minesweeper Condor sees an object poking out of the water near the entrance to the harbor. A sailor identifies it as a periscope