Five Myths about Pearl Harbor
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” And that day, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, has lived in infamy for 70 years.
Yet even as the memory of the attack has lasted, so have the misperceptions surrounding it.
Presidential biographer and historian Craig Shirley has just written a book about World War II. He’s put together a good piece highlighting five myths worth dispelling.
Read the story from the Washington Post.
