"They had no right to win..."
"It was my first day aboard. It was a beautiful sunny day. I was up and had breakfast – first one in the Wardroom. Then I was up on deck admiring the scenery and was pretty happy. Then in about three minutes I saw planes coming over and finally it dawned on me that those were Japanese planes,..." -Captain Douglas G. Phillips
December 7, 1941, 7:49 AM, the Japanese aerial commander gave the order to attack the harbor. At 8:10, the USS Arizona exploded. Killing 1,177 crew on board. This attack awoke the "sleeping giant". This one event lead to what we all know as the Pacific War.