Eighty years ago, on a sleepy Sunday morning a few minutes before 8am, all hell broke loose at the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Contemporary military historians usually agree that the surprise bombing and torpedo assault on U.S. planes and ships on December 7, 1941, was one of the most successful in the history of warfare. Today is a day of remembrance-- the day of infamy as Franklin Delano Roosevelt said--the day Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Imperial Military of the Empire of Japan. The government had initiated the attack and was proud of the incredible success.