Japs Fight US Fleet At Hawaii – The Chicago Sun 12/08/1941

Headline: “Japs Fight U.S. Fleet At Hawaii”
From The Chicago Sun, 12/08/1941

This newspaper is from the day following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.  Many updates from Pearl Harbor, the political reaction around the globe, a flurry of mobilization activity, and concern about a potential Japanese invasion of the U.S.  Additional worries about Japanese saboteurs operating behind these scenes within the United States.

See photo gallery below for some interesting articles and propaganda cartoons included in this newspaper.

Images in photo gallery include:

• Full front page of this newspaper
• Anti Japan war effort/propaganda cartoon showing Japanese soldier holding a knife and a tattered U.S. flag, asking the reader “what are you going to do about it?”
• Map of American and European bases in the Pacific at the time
• Cartoon showing the Chicago Sun’s effort to shine light on internal saboteurs
• Article about how Japanese in NY were ordered to stay indoors, and concern in San Francisco over a potential Japanese invasion
• Short article re: the Army cancelling all phone calls to Alaska as a security measure
• Article about failed assassination plot in 1938 against Mussolini