Tatsuro Matsuda, a US citizen of Japanese descent & owner of the Wanto grocery store in Oakland, California, wants to show where he stands in the newly declared war against Japan:

Japanese bombers have hit American bases at the Philippines, catching Far East Air Force on ground, despite warnings: over half US planes in Manila have been destroyed. youtube.com/watch?v=epbZn3vI…

Rankin- the first woman ever elected to Congress- was followed out of the Capitol chamber by a mob angry at her anti-war vote; she's had to take shelter in a phone booth to call police.

"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked & dastardly attack by Japan... a state of war has existed between the United States & the Japanese Empire." Watch speech now: youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0…

President Roosevelt has addressed US Congress: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly & deliberately attacked by naval & air forces of the Empire of Japan."

Britain's Far East empire has been stripped of troops to reinforce North Africa- Hong Kong's "symbolic garrison" is just 14,000 men.

60,000 Japanese troops are marching from mainland China into British colony of Hong Kong- they outnumber defenders almost 4-to-1.

~60 Hawaiian civilians dead in Pearl Harbor, some strafed by Japanese planes, but mostly killed by faulty, falling American anti-aircraft shells.

In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, citizens hurry in shocked silence to buy first editions of the newspapers reporting outbreak of war with Japan:

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was over in little more than two hours. Over 2,400 Americans are dead, all 8 of the US Navy's battleships in Hawaii damaged, 4 sunk. 188 US planes destroyed. 29 Japanese attackers were shot down.