A date which will live in infamy

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt December 8, 1941

Japanese Artillery

Piti Point / Guam

American Tank

Bloody Nose Ridge / Peleliu

Battery Hearn

Corregidor Island / Philippines

Images by the photographer Richard Marin from his excellent book, War of Our Fathers. The ghostly carcasses of abandoned war artillery and bombers haunt otherwise idyllic settings.