Remember Pearl Harbor December 7th, 2021, marks the 80th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s 1941 surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, dealing a near fatal blow to America’s naval power at the outset of World War II with carrier aviation, a revolutionary new military technology. By 1941, Nazi Germany had conquered most of Western Europe using revolutionary combined-arms military tactics and new technologies in air power and armored divisions to wage Blitzkrieg (“Lightning War”) conquering all, including initially the huge armies of the USSR. In December 1941, the Allies were losing World War II in Europe and…
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