Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, U.S.A., Winter 1941 - Price Five Cents.
Day of Infamy!
Following the recent surprise attack on the US' principal naval base in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, the United States has declared war the Empire of Japan. This event is the culmination of the recent years' tensions over Japanese expansionism in China and South-East Asia, which have rapidly escalated following Japan's invasion of French Indochina and the subsequent US oil embargo earlier this year. Germany and Italy, both Japan's allies, have also declared war on the United States, which has now joined the conflict already raging in Europe.
Further attacks have been reported against the Philippines, British possessions in South-East Asia, the Dutch East Indies and various Pacific island groups, many of which have fallen to invasion by Imperial Japanese forces. However, United States forces have already begun deploying to Australia and islands across the Pacific in order to stop the Japanese advance, and crash mobilization and shipbuilding programs are being put into effect. Sources in the US military remain confident that the Allies can swiftly halt and defeat this unprovoked Japanese offensive.