#120 Bombs dropped from Japanese planes rained suddenly out of the skies on December 7, 1941, leaving a wake of death and ruins on this Pacific Ocean outpost of the United States, a scene of devastation in suburban Wakiki Beach, a favorite resort spot of tourists from the island.

What Honolulu, Hawaii looked like in the 1940s

#120 Bombs dropped from Japanese planes rained suddenly out of the skies on December 7, 1941, leaving a wake of death and ruins on this Pacific Ocean outpost of the United States, a scene of devastation in suburban Wakiki Beach, a favorite resort spot of tourists from the island.

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