Page:A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force.djvu/27

This page has been validated.

Devastation and Renewal


Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Japan's surprise attack against American naval and air forces, above, at installations on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, precipitated the entry of a shocked United States into World War If. It also set into motion an unprecedented arms buildup as America's factories, below, churned out weapons of war such as these Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation B-24 Liberator bombers on an around-the-clock basis.