PEARL HARBOR Definition & Meaning

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Pearl Harbor

a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
any significant or crippling defeat, betrayal, loss, etc., that comes unexpectedly.

Pearl Harbor

an almost landlocked inlet of the Pacific on the S coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii: site of a US naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941, resulting in the US entry into World War II

Pearl Harbor

A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships. In asking Congress to declare war on Japan the next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the day of the attack as “a date which will live in infamy.”

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Fujioka and I talked in the plaza where buses pulled up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to transport Japanese Americans to prison camps.

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After all, The United States and its leader at the time, President Franklin Roosevelt, had a great hatred of Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack.

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Navy and the Shoups were stationed in Honolulu when Pearl Harbor was bombed.

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After the empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, fear went into overdrive.

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One of the country’s last survivors of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Fernandez died Wednesday in Lodi, Calif. He was 100.

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