Pearl Harbor Day: ‘A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY’
USS Arizona after the attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Photo courtesy the National Park Service
Date: December 07, 2025
On this 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, historian Hubert van Tuyll gives details of what happened, why and what the consequences were.
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Writer Hubert van Tuyll is a professor of history at Augusta University. He holds a doctoral degree in American history from Texas A&M and a law degree from Duke University. In the interest of full disclosure, he is married to The Augusta Press Editor Debbie Reddin van Tuyll.
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