‘A day that will live in infamy’
On this day in 1941, America went to war.
The world-altering enormity of the attack on Pearl Harbor was just beginning to come into view when the Herald went to press the next day. “Warship Fired, Pearl Harbor Blasted” and “Navel Battle Rages” — as you can see listed below — only told a fraction of the truth.
But so much more has come out since then. But, this is a day that will never be erased from history.
It’s “a day that will live in infamy” as then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt said to the nation on December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Dec. 8, 1941, front page of the Boston Herald. (From the Herald Archives.)
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