Pearl Harbor: Images of an American Memorial

by Allan Seiden

Book Overview

Long before the infamous day of December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked, it was a tropical lagoon fed by streams that lowed down from the Ko'olau mountains used by the Hawaiian people as an extensive system of fishponds. In 1940, the U.S. headquartered its Pacific Fleet there, America was at war, and Hawai'i was at the helm as the central defense post of the Pacific. Pearl Harbor: Images of an American Memorial is a photographic memorial documenting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156647714X
• ISBN13: 9781566477147
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Mutual Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.