Remembering The Attack On Pearl Harbor, 80 Years Ago Today

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Eighty-two years ago today (Dec. 7), a surprise military attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii changed the course of the Second World War — it led to the United States entering war with Japan the next day, as did Canada. As then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, Dec. 7, 1941 was “a date which will live in infamy.” Here are a few stories that were published in the Calgary Herald and its sister newspapers related to Pearl Harbor and the fallout actions in Canada, which resulted in Japanese-Canadians being sent to internment camps.

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From the Montreal Gazette on Dec. 8, 1941:

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From the Calgary Herald on Dec. 11, 1941:

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From the Calgary Herald on Dec. 1, 1991, the year of the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor:

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PEARL HARBOR: Emotions run high as U.S. and Japan approach anniversary

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By Ken MacQueen, Southam News

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High on a Honolulu hillside sits the venerable Natsunoya Teahouse with its commanding vista of the city and the naval base at Pearl Harbor.

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For Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa, the second-storey balcony of his favorite hangout offered a panoramic view, 50 years ago, of a country basking in splendid isolation.

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Pulling his eyes from the geishas, Yoshikawa looked across a tiny Japanese cemetery in the foreground to the distant U.S. Pacific fleet. He watched the ships return each weekend, clustering in the harbor like green sailors in a new port.

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The cream-colored restaurant with its bamboo entranceway is a vestige of a city that changed forever at 7:55 a.m., Dec. 7, 1941 — when the first wave of Japanese bombers hit with brutal efficiency, sweeping in low and fast on a Sunday morning.

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By 10 a.m. it was over: 2,335 American military personnel killed or fatally wounded; 68 civilians dead; more than 1,100 injured; 188 U.S. planes lost; 18 battleships sunk or heavily damaged.

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A half-century later, as the state and the nation — and Japan — gingerly approach a painful anniversary, the healing is far from complete.

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Like the oil that still bleeds into the harbor from the sunken tomb of the USS Arizona, emotions are welling from the depths as the commemoration ceremonies approach.

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Old men stare into the harbor, “playing tapes of a long time ago” as survivor Jack Westerman puts it. Confusion. Fear. Death. Hatred. Forgiveness, for some. Bitterness, for others.

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A wizened man in a grey suit stands, smoking, within sight of the memorial that straddles the suken Arizona, where 1,177 men died and the bodies of 945 remain. He is Zenji Abe, once a dive bomber pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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He targeted a big destroyer that morning. The Arizona, he now believes.

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