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Pearl Harbor

On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted a surprise air and sea assault on the US Naval Station Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. At this time, the US Pacific Fleet was docked at Pearl Harbor. The attack shocked Americans and drew the United States into World War II.

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Women group together in a prisoner barracks. Some of the women are laying on the floor, while others are laying on the wooden bunk beds. All of them are wearing heavy outwear or wrapped in blankets.

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Blanka Rothschild holds one of her prewar family photographs. [LCID: athbr039]

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