Advertiser Staff

The day lives on in the minds of the men and women, soldiers and sailors who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years ago this December.

The boys in the military who lived to tell about Dec. 7, 1941, are old men now and will be honored in Hawai'i by the National Park Service through a series of 60th anniversary programs and tours the week of Dec. 7.

Hawai'i residents, many of whom were young children that Sunday morning, remember too.

Here online and in the paper, The Advertiser will bring you the headlines for each day before Dec. 7, 1941, when America and an entire generation of its sons and daughters had not yet gone to war — a war triggered by the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Previous headlines:

 • Saturday, Dec. 6, 1941: America expected to reject Japan's reply on Indo-China
 • Friday, Dec. 5, 1941: Finns spurn ultimatum; Britain to declare war
 • Thursday, Dec. 4, 1941: Hawaii martial law measure killed for present session
 • Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1941: Japan mechanized army massed in Indo-China
 • Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1941: 'Blast Japan off seas,' urge
 • Monday, Dec. 1, 1941: Sudden red onslaught hurls German army back 100 miles

 • Sunday, Nov. 30, 1941: Kurusu bluntly warned nation ready for battle
 • Saturday, Nov. 29, 1941: Russ capital fall nears as Nazis crack through
 • Friday, Nov. 28, 1941: 15,000 Italians taken prisoner; Gondar falls
 • Thursday, Nov. 27, 1941: Britain to conscript men, women under 50
 • Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1941: Axis capture U.S. officers!
 • Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1941: British landing party on French coast fails!
 • Monday, Nov. 24, 1941: British crush enemy tanks in big encirclement drive

 • Sunday, Nov. 23, 1941: German panzers, British tanks in crucial battle
 • Saturday, Nov. 22, 1941: Caucasus gateway open as Nazis take Rostov
 • Friday, Nov. 21, 1941: Gang of non-strikers shoot 10 mine pickets
 • Thursday, Nov. 20, 1941: Moscow admits army is fleeing from Kerch
 • Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1941: Vichy ousts Weygand at demand of Germans
 • Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1941: Japanese may abandon puppet Nanking regime
 • Monday, Nov. 17, 1941: Navy captures axis vessel disguised as American ship

 • Sunday, Nov. 16, 1941: Lewis orders walkout involving 300,000 miners
 • Saturday, Nov. 15, 1941: British vow vengeance for Ark Royal sinking
 • Friday, Nov. 14, 1941: Ark Royal sunk!
 • Thursday, Nov. 13, 1941: Japanese cabinet urged to bolster air defense
 • Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1941: Finns reject U.S. note on peace with Russia
 • Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1941: Mad tommy gun killer terrorizes Londoners
 • Monday, Nov. 10, 1941: Threat of U.S.-Japan war emphasized by spokesmen

 • Sunday, Nov. 9, 1941: Fire if attacked, Nazi subs told
 • Saturday, Nov. 8, 1941: British lose 35 planes in war's biggest raid
 • Friday, Nov. 7, 1941: U.S. sends two war aid missions to Middle East
 • Thursday, Nov. 6, 1941: Duce Shot!
 • Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1941: Japan rushing special envoy to Washington
 • Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1941: U.S. officers stationed at Gibraltar, Italy says