The following are the newspaper headlines that reported to the citizens of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal fields that the United States had been attacked at its bases on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

In the days that followed, thousands of young men and women enlisted in the fight against fascism across the globe. The United States had finally formally entered the Second World War.

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More Pearl Harbor stories from Jake Wynn – Public Historian

A Pennsylvania teenager remembers learning of the attack on Pearl Harbor | December 1941

Killed aboard the USS Arizona | Seaman First Class Paul Shiley and the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Ivan C. Lewis | Pearl Harbor Survivor lost while serving with the 8th Air Force

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