Harbor 1941 facts
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James O. Richardson pleaded with FDR over his poor decision to centralize the Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, warned of the risks, was fired in Februrary of 1941, only to be proven right on December 7th when the Japanese attacked and sunk it.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941, Canada declared War on the Japanese Empire a day before United States and United Kingdom did.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 40 of the best facts about Harbor 1941 I managed to collect.
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The shrimp cocktail was invented in a bar on Boston Harbor in 1941. It was first prepared as a drunken “let’s put gross shit together in a glass and dare people to drink it” concoction with shrimp, ketchup, and vodka, but it proved to be delicious while hammered.
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The 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor was later judged as a war crime because the military strike occurred without declaration of war and without explicit warning
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Within two months of the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor, the last civilian cars rolled off assembly lines, and auto plants converted to military-only production of arms, munitions, trucks, tanks and planes. Civilian production of automobiles didn’t begin again until after the war in 1945.
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Annie Fox who was the first woman to be awarded the Purple Heart for combat following her service as the head nurse at Hickam Field's Station Hospital during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
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In 1941, Willamette University's football team played a game at the University of Hawaii on December 6th for the post season. The following day, December 7th, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The team was conscripted into the Army to help fight a possible Japanese invasion of the island.
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America and Britain began to take action that suggested they were close to war with Japan in late 1941, prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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A movie filmed in 1941 featured the hero foiling a Japanese plot to bomb Pearl Harbor. The script had to be rewritten when the actual bombing took place.
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On December 7th, 1941 the Japanese military under Hideki Tojo's command, attacked Pearl Harbor.
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A flying boat was forced into becoming the first commercial airliner to circumnavigate the globe, dramatically changing its flight plan after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The trip took just over a month to complete.
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No Kamikaze pilots were involved in the 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. The first official Kamikaze missions were planned and carried out in 1944, three years later.
This was the worst naval defeat for the U.S. Navy until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo's military and spy network was focused on Hawaii - source
On December 7th, 1941, Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, resulting in several thousand deaths. This was the reason for the United States entering World War II.
Dumbo was so popular that Time planned its December 29, 1941 cover to be his portrait, touting Dumbo as “Mammal of the Year”. But following Pearl Harbor he was replaced by "General Douglas MacArthur of the Philippines” - source
The commander at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 was so much a creature of habit that the Japanese Military read his tactics easily. His faulty habitualness also gave him confidence Japan could never attack Pearl Harbor first. He was relieved of his duties 10 days later.
On the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Midway Atoll was attacked by 2 Japanese destroyers.
After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Roosevelt signed executive order to remove approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and relocate them to a number of relocation centers for the duration of WWII.
Dumbo was chosen as Time's "Mammal (Man) of the Year" in 1941 by the magazine's editors, but the result was changed to President Roosevelt after the Pearl Harbor attack
After the release of Dumbo, Time Magazine planned on naming the title character "mammal of the year" for 1941, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, quickly changed it to FDR
In 1941, the editors of Time Magazine had selected Dumbo as "Mammal of the Year" and nearly published before switching to FDR after Pearl Harbor
