ANDY UMBERGER, BEN DAVIS, JOSEPH FUQUA and ALEX NEE Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at Rubicon Theater Company's SOUTH PACIFIC

This Thursday, December 7 marks the anniversary of the air raid on Pearl Harbor in which Japanese planes attacked a United States Naval Air Base in the Territory of Hawaii in the Pacific. Thousands of Americans lost their lives or were injured, and more than 300 ships were destroyed. The event brought citizens together in support of U.S. participation in the war. President Roosevelt addressed the nation, calling the event, 'a day that will live in infamy.'