Japanese bomb scores direct hit on USS Arizona’s forward magazine 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 7 1941)


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(Sunday, December 7, 1941, 8:10 a.m. in Honolulu/1:40 p.m. in Washington/Monday, December 8, 1941, 3:35 a.m. in Tokyo; during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II) — A Japanese bomb scored a direct hit today on the forward magazine of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.


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1,177 men were killed in the inferno, but some sailors are blown clear by the blast.