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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the hub of the United States military power in the Pacific. More than 180 planes were destroyed; 18 ships were sunk or severely damaged. More than 3,700 men and women were wounded or killed. The events of that day, "a date which will live in infamy," as President Franklin Roosevelt called it, brought the United States into World War II.