Poster depicting Dorie Miller, who received a Navy Cross for his efforts at Pearl Harbor. Done by David Stone Martin.

Source: National Archives (WDNS-208-PMP-68)

Daniel Inouye, the son of a Japanese immigrant, was born in Hawaii, September 7, 1924. He was a seventeen year old high school senior on December 7, 1941, and witnessed first hand the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As a Red Cross volunteer he helped tend to the many civilian . . .

Daniel Inouye, right, and his father. Inouye would receive the Medal of Honor 55 years after he was badly wounded in Italy.

Source: Daniel Inouye

Daniel Inouye home on furlough.

Source: Daniel Inouye

Portrait of 2LT Daniel K. Inouye. Co. E, 2d Bn., 442d RCT.

Source: U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii (USAMH2986)

Sgt. Daniel K. Inouye cuts hair at Camp Shelby in Meridian, Mississippi. March 31, 1944

Source: U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii (USAMH3042)

Thanks to African-American blood, Daniel Inouye survived his wounds.

Describing the action that earned him a Medal of Honor, Inouye said, "What the men told me I did, I said, 'No, it can't be. ' "

Even a decorated soldier in uniform experienced racial prejudice back home.

A trip to an internment camp changed his opinion of mainland Japanese Americans.

For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to the country following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

President Roosevelt delivers the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor to the citizens across America. (excerpt)

A newsboy in Redding, California sells an extra with news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-071204)

Katharine Phillips remembers how news of Pearl Harbor came to Mobile.

The body of a dead American sailor, killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, washes up on the shores of Kaneohe, Hawaii. December 7, 1941

Source: National Archives (080-G-32858)

Japanese military action against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Hawaiian Islands, that caused America to enter the war. By early 1941, tensions between Japan and the United States had reached the breaking point. Japan's invasion of China beginning in 1937 and its occupation of French Indochina in . . .

View from a Japanese plane of Ford Island during the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941.

Source: U.S. Naval Historical Center (NH 50930)

Daniel Inouye was preparing to go to church with his family when the attack on Pearl Harbor began.

The USS Shaw explodes after being hit by the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ford Island Naval Air Station, December 7, 1941.

Source: National Archives (80-G-19948)