The Philippines Was Attacked The Same Day As Pearl Harbour

But Roosevelt Left It Out Of His “Infamy” Speech For Tactical Reasons

Abhinav Dholepat
3 min readMar 27, 2020

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President Roosevelt Delivering The “Infamy” Speech

On the 7th of December 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service bombed the Pearl Harbour Naval Station killing 2335 + 68 (civilians) and injuring 1143 + 35 (civilians) individuals. They also damaged, sunk and destroyed a number of ships and…

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