e Japanese sent 350 B-17 bombers with the intention of destroying as many American ships as possible, killing and wounding 3000 American Marines. Russel McCurdy, an American member of the marines on USS Arizona battleship illustrates his memory of the attack, "We got to the deck and it was chaos. There were charred bodies everywhere. The passageways were like white-hot furnaces. The wounded and burned were staggering out of the passageways from below, only to die up on the deck because of their charred condition. " (Meehl 41) The infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base unified our nation in its resolve to protect ourselves as well as rid the world of Nazism and Fascism as a necessity not a choice. History shows that President Roosevelt's eventual declaration of war against Japan was justified
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