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Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Resilience: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.915.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today on our series, Resilience, we are going to hear more from author Craig Nelson, who shares insights on what exactly happened during the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

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0:00.0

This is Jan Delec speaking from the CBS Newsroom in New York.

0:27.0

The Japanese have attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii and our defense

0:34.0

facilities at Manila, capital of the Philippines.

0:37.0

The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air and all-nabled military activities

0:41.9

on the island of O'Haule, the principal American base in the Hawaiian Islands.

0:47.0

A second air attack has been reported.

0:50.8

This one has been made on the Army and Navy bases in Manila.

0:54.4

A naval engagement is in progress off Honolulu with at least one black enemy aircraft's

0:59.6

carrier in action against the Pearl Harbor defenses.

1:04.9

The planes are officially described so far as unidentified in these messages, although

1:09.0

later reports that have come in from the press associations definitely identify at least

1:13.0

two of these planes as carrying the emblem of the rising sun, the emblem of Japan.

1:23.2

Hello friends, welcome to another episode in our series Resilience, the wartime incarceration

1:31.2

of Japanese Americans.

1:34.0

In order to fully understand the events that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese

1:41.7

Americans, most of them citizens, we have to understand Pearl Harbor.

1:48.6

Pearl Harbor didn't come out of nowhere, but it was a shock.

1:55.2

And today we'll be hearing from historian Craig Nelson, who's led a research team for

2:02.9

years that produced over 1 million documents related to the attack on Pearl Harbor and

2:10.4

he has written a seminal book on this topic, Pearl Harbor from Infamy to Greatness.

2:16.3

This book about Pearl Harbor provides a blow by blow account from both the Japanese and

2:22.3

American perspectives.

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