The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 52, December 7, 2003, Article 1

PEARL HARBOR AND NUMISMATICS

  On this date in 1941, also a Sunday, the Japanese attacked
  the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  "The 7 December
  1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great
  defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and
  well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's
  battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's
  southward expansion. America, unprepared and now
  considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the
  Second World War as a full combatant."  From:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

  The Pearl Harbor attack had a direct effect on U.S.
  numismatics in the form of the Hawaii overprint notes of
  1942-1944.

  http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/5/44/105

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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