Pearl Harbor 75th Commemoration

It is, of course the 75th commemoration of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That attack meant America and Britain went to war with Japan and obviously had serious and long lasting consequences for China, Shanghai and Shanghailanders. It is also worth remembering that, due to the international date line, the Pearl Harbor attack on the 8th of December in China. this picture has always struck me especially, even though it is not taken in China….

Dec. 15, 1941, Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn’t mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lee was born in the U.S.