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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Follow the soldiers and politicians through the course of this awful day, which marked the United States' entrance into World War II.