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Congressional Medal of Honor Society
16 Pearl Harbor Day Medal of Honor Recipients, Dec. 7, 1941
On December 7, 1941, the United States was pulled into World War II by a Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In a day full of heroic actions, 16 of them resulted in the Medal of Honor.