Pearl Harbor: 80 Years Later

Warfare

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On 7 December 1941, Imperial Japan launched an attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. In this episode 80 years later, James speaks to Adrian Kerrison, a curator at the Imperial War Museums. Adrian takes us through the events of that day, the motives behind the attack and its lasting legacy.

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0:00.0	The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure.
0:03.5	Do we have to go home today?
0:05.5	sighed Anne.
0:06.5	I agree said Dick.
0:08.0	Even Timmy looks sad.
0:09.5	Cheer up everyone.
0:11.5	Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday
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0:24.4	Adventures start here.
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0:30.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast. I'm your host James
0:36.4	Rogers and this week marks the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl
0:42.1	Harbor arguably one of the most impactful
0:44.7	attacks of the Second World War, but while it generated some short-term
0:49.6	advantages for the Japanese, in the longer term could we argue that it was a misguided failure.
0:55.7	Joining me on the podcast to discuss this is Adrian Kerison from the Imperial War Museum.
1:00.3	Adrian is one of the excellent creators of the Second World War exhibitions and he takes us deep into some of the strategic successes and failures of the attack alongside some of those misguided political assumptions that informed the Japanese that motivated them to attack Pearl Harbor.
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