(KNSI) — Flags will fly at half staff today to honor and remember those lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 82 years ago.
The USS Arizona and the bulk of the U.S. fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor were heavily damaged or destroyed on the morning of December 7th, 1941. More than 2,400 Americans were killed. Almost 1,200 were wounded. The day, which still lives in infamy, plunged the U.S. into World War II.
Eighty-four Naval Reservists from Minnesota were serving active duty at the time.
The USS Ward fired the first American shot in the war, and the gun of that ship, which sunk a Japanese submarine trying to infiltrate the harbor defenses, now sits outside the State Capitol building in St. Paul.
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