Japanese bomber aircraft attack Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. Japanese warships and destroyers head for Pearl Harbor. Commanding officers of Japanese fleet look through binoculars. Two Japanese aircraft carriers (Kaga and Zuikaku, as seen from the Agaki) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese pilots being briefed. Aircraft engines warm up on the flight deck of a carrier. Japanese aircraft take off from the flight deck of the carrier. Aerial views of Japanese planes dropping bombs over Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor and other targets on Oahu. View of two Japanese dignitaries leaving the White House, Washington DC, with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Photographers take pictures of them.
Deployment of U.S. Marine Corps on islands of Pacific and Japanese tricks of attack used against them during World War II. Japanese snipers attack U.S. Marine and fire gun from hilltops on island. Japanese mannerism of attack shows Marines advance through open field and lanes. Human decoy trick include Japanese sniper attacking Marine from a tree. Dead Japanese sniper after being shot by Marine. Japanese soldiers camouflaged with foliage, covering mouth of wounded Marine and hiding themselves behind bushes. Japanese soldiers look through binoculars. Japanese soldiers fire machine guns towards Marines come to rescue their wounded buddy.
Deployment of U.S. Marine Corps on island of Pacific during World War II. Marines advance towards Japanese positions on an island. Japanese buildings near an airfield explode. Marines kill Japanese soldiers on their way and advance ahead. Marines in foxholes. Counter attack by Japanese troops as a shell explodes. Marines fire rifles in prone positions. Marines in foxhole with machine guns and rifles at night. Japanese troops advance from same direction as earlier and attack Marines. Marines return fire. Explosions in the jungle. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers lying. Dead Japanese soldier on a tree. Marines advance through jungle fighting against the Japanese troops. Long line of Marines advance on an open field. Marines fire guns towards enemy on island.
A 1943 film about the December 7, 1941 Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. Film blends dramatized scenes with actual historic footage from the event. Formations of Japanese bombers approach Pearl Harbor. USS Arizona (BB-39) bombed. U.S. personnel aboard USS Arizona as the ship is bombed. Smoke billows up from the explosion. U.S. sailors aboard USS Oklahoma (BB-37). USS Oklahoma and USS California (BB-44) are bombed by Japanese aircraft. U.S. troops fire machine guns at Japanese aircraft. USS Cassin (DD-372), USS Downes (DD-375), and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) bombed in the dry dock of Pearl Harbor. Ships in flames. USS Oglala CM-4 sinks after being attacked. Air raid alarms sound in Honolulu. Japanese people in Honolulu as the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor continues. A Japanese man being interviewed after air raid says he cannot think that Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor.
Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during World War II. Japanese officials seated at a desk discuss amongst themselves. Narrator indicates they plot an attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese airplanes warming up on Japanese aircraft carrier ship in preparation for the attack. Japanese aircraft flying overhead to attack Pearl Harbor. Street scenes in Honolulu during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Nurses, workers, and civilians running to assist wounded, and smoke from attack visible in distance. A two-man submarine on a beach, that narrator says was used in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Stern of the 2-man mini or midget Japanese submarine. Japanese pilot dead in water and Japanese airplane hoisted out of water in Pearl Harbor after the attack.
Animated map shows Japanese massing for attacks against Australia, Midway Island, and the Aleutians in World War 2. U.S. naval forces prepare for the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. U.S. warships seen underway in the Pacific Ocean. Crewmen on the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown (CV-5) push a Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft with folded wings. Senior officer on the carrier looking through binoculars. Ship's flight operations personnel are alerted by bugle over intercom to report to their stations. flight deck operational crews assemble on deck. Aviators assemble in ready rooms. They are told a Japanese carrier has been sighted and they are to attack its aircraft. Ready rooms are notified of enemy contact at 125 miles. The pilots scramble up stairs to the flight deck and their airplanes. They climb into cockpits Douglas SBD Dauntless planes, start engines, taxi, and take off one at a time. They form up in flights of 3 aircraft each and fly overhead. View of the Island on the Yorktown, as they wait for aircraft to return. Antiaircraft gunners wait in readiness for possible Japanese attack. A formation of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) aircraft is sighted. They dive at the Yorktown, as her gunners fire away at them. Black flak clouds fill the sky. An explosion as a bomb strikes the Yorktown. She lists and burns and is wracked by another explosion. An SBD dauntless rocks loose near the end of flight deck. USS Yorktown along with other ships in the task force battling Japanese aircraft. A Japanese torpedo plane is downed on the surface of the sea. Flames and smoke at forward port area of Yorktown's flight deck. Gunners hit wings of attacking airplane. Firefighters on Yorktown set up hoses on her deck. More U.S. aircraft airborne to attack Japanese force only 15 miles away. U.S. dive bomber dropping a bomb. An SBD dauntless lands on a carrier deck. Navy aviators pose on deck. Closeup of a Dauntless landing. "Scorecard" compares U.S. and Japanese losses in the two engagements.
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