The video then talks about Japan's pact with Nazi Germany and its attack on China.
Yamamoto.
Planning for the attack began in the spring of 1941.
A Japanese who had been part of a submarine task force is going to help a man named Ballard try to find a Japanese mini-sub that was sunk just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
On a technicality, the first shots of the second world war part with the U.S. were actually fired by the U.S. when the Japanese mini-sub was sunk an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Regular-sized Japanese subs carried a mini-sub each. Each of the five mini-subs carried a crew of two men.
Four of the five mini-subs worked correctly, but one developed trouble with its gyroscope.
At 3:42 A.M. a U.S. mine sweeper spotted a periscope in the water. That ship alerted a destroyer. The skipper of the Ward, the destroyer, misunderstood the message and looked in the wrong place. This is the first missed opportunity the U.S. had to know about the attack in advance.
6:30: Another spotting of a periscope, and another opportunity missed to go to full general quarters on the island base. The destroyer opened fire and one shell hit the conning tower of the sub. After that the sub used depth charges.
The expedition finds lots of junk like this seaplane from the 20's or 30's.
A radar station picks up approaching aircraft, and for the third time nothing is really done to alert the base. The video then goes into the attack itself.
The U.S.S. Arizona is hit.
There are more shots of the Arizona. The video also talks about how blacks were treated in the Navy at that time.
The film then talks about the mini-sub that was found the day after the battle. It was the one with the gyroscope problem.
All but three of the ships that had been hit were eventually refloated, repaired, and used again.
