Overview
- On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, and Congress declared war on Japan the next day, drawing the United States into World War II.
- In less than two hours, eight U.S. battleships were damaged or sunk, the USS Arizona went down with more than 1,100 men aboard, and more than 2,400 Americans were killed.
- Editorials emphasize that about 110,000 Japanese Americans, most of them Nisei, were forcibly removed to camps such as Manzanar for the duration of the war.
- Coverage cites contemporaneous warnings against mass incarceration from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Naval intelligence officer Kenneth Ringle.
- Remembrance pieces highlight Nisei service in the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team and ongoing visits to the USS Arizona memorial and Manzanar, now a National Historical Site.