Day of Infamy

The Japanese attack fleet.

181 Japanese planes and bombers are to take off from six aircraft carriers.

They form only the first wave of the attack.

The attack begins.

The attacking planes come in two waves.

The Japanese only lose 29 planes in the attack.

188 American planes have been destroyed, and 8 battleships have been either destroyed or damaged.

2403 Americans die in the attack.

One of the survivors. He had a dream about the attack before it happened.

April, 1940, FDR orders the Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor.

Yamamoto comes up with a plan for the attack.

Billy Mitchell demonstrates that ships can be sunk using planes. (A look to the past for a moment.)

The Pearl Harbor attack plan.

The idea, for the Japanese, was to cripple the US fleet which would then allow Japan to expand as much as it wanted to in the Pacific since there would be no other big fleet to oppose it.

The film makes reference to the midget submarines.

There was some initial opposition to Yamamoto's plan, but it got the go-ahead anyhow.

Kimmel, the man in command of Pearl Harbor.

The US military had done practice raids on the Panama Canal and even Pearl Harbor, and proved such things could be done.

The first Japanese attack wave launches.

The flight is picked up by a radar, but the duty officer said they were B-17's due from the mainland (although why they would be coming from a totally different direction then east is something I don't understand.)

Prior to the start of the attack, the destroyer Ward destroys one of the five midget subs. The messages from the destroyer were not taken seriously.

The attack is covered using interviews with US survivors, footage from an old Japanese documentary on the attack, and other footage.

The first wave leaves and the second strike wave arrives.

Back on the Japanese fleet, there is consideration of a third strike against Pearl Harbor. This would have been against the fuel dumps, warehouses and harbor installations, but the decision was made not to have a third strike.

Six planes from one of the carriers arrived at Pearl Harbor it night and were shot at. Three were destroyed, their pilots killed.



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