USS ARIZONA
03-04-2011
di
Riccardo Lenzi
The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew, including Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd . The attack, which left 2,343 Americans dead and 916 missing, broke the backbone of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and forced America out of a policy of isolationism. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that it was “a date which will live in infamy” and Congress declared war on Japan the morning after. This was the first attack on American territory since 1812. (AP Photo)
Riccardo Lenzi (Bologna 1974) è redattore e free lance. Ha scritto due libri: "L'Altrainformazione. Quattro gatti tra la via Emilia e il web" (Pendragon, 2004) e, insieme ad Antonella Beccaria, "Schegge contro la democrazia. 2 agosto 1980: le ragioni di una strage nei più recenti atti giudiziari" (Socialmente, 2010)