With more than 3,000 Clevelanders dying in the efforts that brought the allies victory in Europe and Japan, 10 of those lives were lost when Imperial Japan opened the war with the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.

One of those killed was Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd, a native of Cleveland, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery as he manned the bridge of his flagship, the USS Arizona, commanding his men as a bomb directly hit the bridge, killing him and others.

Kidd was the highest-ranking officer to be killed that morning. It would be 1,347 days before Americans could celebrate the end of the war, as parades rang out across the country. Ohio Gov. Frank J. Lausche declared Aug. 15 and 16 as days of thanksgiving and prayer, with uncertainty surro

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