US strikes Iran targets for second time in three days
BBC World →The hostilities come during a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, and protracted negotiations to end the three-month war.
McChord Bombed for Second Time as Army Continues Its Maneuvers
Pia was near Grand Mound and Centralia early Thursday and moving northward rapidly. American soldiers retreated. The retreat was being carried out in orderly fashion, however, the communique reported. An armored force, estimated at a battalion, was sighted as it drove down U.S. Highway 80 on Thursday, starting at Port Angeles. It was halted north of Quilcene when three bridges were bombed on the highway by American troops. All these moves, of course, are continued on Page __, Column __.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The day after the attack, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his famous Day of Infamy speech to a Joint Session of Congress, calling for a formal declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. Congress obliged his request less than an hour later. On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States...
Wikipedia →Internment of Japanese Americans
During World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps in the United States, operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Wikipedia →Bombardment of Fort Stevens
The Bombardment of Fort Stevens occurred in June 1942, in the American Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Imperial Japanese submarine I-25 fired on Fort Stevens, which defended the Oregon side of the Columbia River's Pacific entrance. On 21 June 1942, I-25 had entered U.S. coastal waters, following fishing boats to avoid the mine fields in the area.
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