Pearl Harbor’s Legacy
Yamamoto’s brilliantly conceived attack on Pearl Harbor not only plunged the United States into World War II, but created a lasting impact on the American psyche. To this day, fuel continues to leak from the Arizona’s oil bunkers underneath old Battleship Row. Even after the needless sacrifice of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s remaining battleships in Operation SHO, Japan pressed on with the war, unleashing kamikaze attacks against the U.S. Navy’s carrier battle groups. As newly appointed President Truman met with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in Potsdam in July 1945 to secure Russia’s participation in the war against Japan, only one hope remained to avoid a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands: the Manhattan ...
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