75 years ago, on the seventh Dec 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise assault on the U.S. naval base of operations at Pearl Harbor. Around 2,400 Americans were killed together with 1,178 wounded inwards the attack. The assault straight led to the USA entering into World War II.
Japanese developer Hidenori Watanave has mapped eyewitness reports of the assault on a 3D interactive map of Oahu isle inwards Hawaii. The 1941 Project allows yous to read testimony of the assault on Pearl Harbor from actual eyewitnesses of the attack, every bit documented inwards Katrina Luksovsky's book, 'Ford Island Dec 7, 1941'.
The map was created using the Cesium WebGL virtual populace library. The 1941 Project every bit good includes links to Hidenori Watanave's other 3d mapping projects. These include the Hiroshima Archive, a 3d map of eyewitness accounts of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, the Nagasaki Archive, eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Nagasaki, together with the Battle of Okinawa, eyewitness accounts of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.
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