80 Years of Remembering Pearl Harbor: Valor, Sacrifice, and Peace

US soldiers with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) transfer colors during a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 3, 2017. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lauren Falk

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—Thousands of people gathered on Dec. 7 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The surprise assault by the Imperial Japanese Navy on Dec. 7, 1941, carried out prior to a declaration of war, plunged the United States into World War II.