
. W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Friday , December 07, 2012 Pearl Harbor Day December 7th , 1941, A date which will live in infamy These words were uttered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt , the 32nd President of the United States , after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor . Eight US Naval battleships were damaged , four of them were sunk . In addition , three cruisers , three destroyers , a mine layer and one anti-aircraft training ship were all destroyed or sunk . 2,402 Americans lost their lives , and 1,282 were . wounded The very next day , The Congress of the United States declared a state of war with Japan , and three days later declared a state of war with the Axis