Victory at Sea S1E02 The Pacific Boils Over

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00:55And now, the Pacific boils over.

01:00Hawaii.

01:02To Americans, an enchanting island territory 2,000 miles from the mainland.

01:08To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor, an enemy bastion.

01:14For two years, Europe has been at war.

01:16But in Honolulu, people talk of pineapples, sugar cane, money and toast.

01:21The year is 1941.

01:25There is still time for one more aloha.

01:28Still time to enjoy tropical skies and sweet music.

01:32The flowered leaves and the hula.

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02:08On another Pacific island, beyond the international date line,

02:12events which will change the course of history are maturing with reckless rapidity.

02:16Tokyo, the brain of the Japanese empire, looks brisk, efficient, modern,

02:21as is proper for the capital of the most thoroughly industrialized nation in the East.

02:26Simultaneously, two opposed levels of culture exist side by side.

02:31Oriental and Occidental.

02:34Social, economic, and religious ideas from an isolated past

02:38thrive with superimposed industrial methods and Western ways.

02:42The face of Japan is baffling.

02:45A strange mixture of the very ancient with the brand new.

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02:53But one face is familiar.

02:55The world has learned to recognize aggression.

02:58Japan is marching.

03:00Techniques she has learned so well from the West are harnessed into ideas cultivated in the East.

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03:12Hakko Ichu.

03:14Japan's divine mission to bring the eight corners of the world under one roof.

03:18Ushido.

03:20The sacred code of the warrior.

03:22The glory of conquest.

03:26First Japan conquered Manchuria.

03:28Later she struck China.

03:30Incident after incident.

03:32Victory after victory.

03:34Forging her new empire, the greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere.

03:39The world is beginning to catch the ominous sound of a strange new word.

03:43Banzai.

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03:49But behind bright banners and arrogant words,

03:51the Japanese high command ponders a dilemma.

03:54To realize the dreams of conquest,

03:56the war machine must have the oil of Southeast Asia.

04:00Japan has none.

04:02With the European powers locked in a war of survival,

04:05America's Pacific fleet is the major obstacle to Japanese domination of Asia and the Pacific.

04:11The ruling militarists hatch a fateful plan to eliminate the obstacle.

04:16Sink the United States Navy.

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04:23Guns are sighted on Pearl Harbor.

04:25The key to America's defense in the Pacific.

04:28The headquarters of the United States Pacific fleet.

04:31Japan knows the attack she is planning means war.

04:34But if she sinks the principal striking force of the United States Navy,

04:38the prize is worth the risk.

04:41Such bold designs demand hard study and exact intelligence.

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04:52The Hawaiian island was scrutinized, especially Oahu, with its principal targets.

04:57Honolulu.

04:59Pearl Harbor.

05:00The major airfields.

05:02Installations of every kind.

05:04Ports.

05:05Naval bases.

05:07Warehouses.

05:09Dry docks.

05:10Every military factor of importance is pinpointed for the coming attack.

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05:20But the heart of the assault will center on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor,

05:24around which the American fleet is moored.

05:26Intelligence reports.

05:28Main enemy force here.

05:30Destroyers here.

05:32Cruisers.

05:33Converted target ship Utah.

05:35Seaplane tender.

05:37There is little the Japanese do not know in advance.

05:41The Navy's finest pilots are picked to deliver the assault,

05:44which will be carried out entirely by carrier-based aircraft.

05:47Technically and emotionally,

05:49their indoctrination is as perfect as human ingenuity can make it.

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06:06By late October 1941,

06:08dress rehearsals for the attack are secretly staged over terrain

06:11chosen for its resemblance to Pearl Harbor.

06:14Air crews hold repeated, highly realistic maneuvers,

06:17perfecting their teamwork, practicing approaches,

06:20sharpening their marksmanship.

06:23Plans and decisions become orders and action.

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06:38Events move with relentless precision toward their climax.

06:41In early November, Admiral Yamamoto,

06:44designer of the Pearl Harbor attack,

06:46orders his striking force to advance into Hawaiian waters,

06:49and upon the very opening of hostilities,

06:51attack the main force of the United States fleet.

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07:04On November 16th, the ships, singly and in small groups,

07:07slip out to sea to rendezvous in a hidden harbor

07:09in the remote Kuril Islands, far north of Tokyo.

07:13A week later, the Pearl Harbor striking force

07:15is assembled and weighs anchor for Hawaii,

07:174,000 miles and 12 days away.

07:20The task force maintains radio silence

07:23and travels a roundabout course off normal shipping lines.

07:26Dirty weather and heavy seas help bail its progress.

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07:47There has never before been so powerful

07:49a striking force in the Pacific.

07:52Two vast battleships,

07:55six of Japan's newest and finest carriers,

07:59a screen of eight destroyers,

08:01three cruisers, and three submarines.

08:04Aboard the carriers are 40 torpedo bombers,

08:07135 dive bombs,

08:09104 horizontal bombers,

08:12and 81 strafing planes.

08:15A total of 360 aircraft.

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08:22Preparing themselves for the attack,

08:24pilots pause at Shinpo Shrine

08:26to renew their dedication to the spirits of their ancestors.

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08:38On every flight deck,

08:39pilots receive last-minute intelligence on Pearl Harbor.

08:43They prepare to strike for the glory of Japan.

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08:54Admiral Nagumo, commander of the task force,

08:57delivers a final message from Imperial headquarters in Tokyo.

09:01Niitakayama, nobore.

09:04Climb Mount Niitaka.

09:07The code to attack.

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09:30A fresh northwesterly trade is blowing,

09:32and the helmsmen swing their carriers into the wind

09:34for launching the planes.

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09:52Latitude, 26 degrees north.

09:54Longitude, 158 degrees west.

09:58The launching point.

10:00Pearl Harbor lies 275 miles to the south.

10:04It is 0600.

10:06It is X day.

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11:135,000 miles away in Washington, it is almost noon.

11:17At the Navy Department, intelligence experts

11:19have had a puzzling Sunday morning.

11:21Some time ago, they broke Japan's most carefully guarded code.

11:25They've deciphered a dispatch from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy.

11:29Secret instructions reject America's request

11:31for mediation in the Far Eastern crisis.

11:33Order negotiations broken off.

11:36Exactly what this means, no one knows.

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11:43The State Department is uneasy.

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11:48Secretary Cordell Hull awaits another crucial conference

11:51with the Japanese ambassador

11:53and a special envoy from Tokyo scheduled for 1 o'clock.

11:57The Japanese ask for a 45-minute postponement.

12:01There is no delay in the flight of their warplanes toward Hawaii.

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12:32Oahu, sunny, relaxed, peaceful.

12:38Flying weather good, visibility clear.

12:41Slowly life begins to stir on the island.

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13:16At an Army radar station, a private practices

13:18as he waits for the breakfast truck.

13:20He picks up planes approaching from the north

13:22and tracks them for a few minutes

13:24before reporting to Air Force headquarters, Hickam Field.

13:27But the planes are thought to be American.

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13:36Ten minutes to eight.

13:38December 7, 1941.

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20:32The pilots and the planes depart.

20:36Never in modern history has a war begun with so smashing a victory.

20:41In one hour and 50 minutes, the Japanese have sunk or shattered eight battleships.

20:46Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, California, Tennessee, Maryland, Pennsylvania.

21:00Three cruisers and three destroyers and four smaller ships are sunk or battered.

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21:19One hundred and eighty-eight planes and most of their hangars demolished.

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21:47The Japanese have lost 29 planes.

21:50Sixty-eight of their pilots and sailors are dead.

21:53And five midget submarines which tried to penetrate Pearl Harbor are beached or sunk.

21:58One of the cheapest military triumphs on record.

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22:10Suffering.

22:12Agony.

22:14Death.

22:16One thousand one hundred and seventy-eight men wounded.

22:21Sixty-eight civilians dead.

22:25One hundred and nine Marines dead.

22:29Two hundred and eighteen soldiers dead.

22:34Two thousand and eight sailors dead.

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22:44In Tokyo, the government loses no time in exploiting the news of Pearl Harbor.

22:48Japan's greatest victory.

22:51With pride, an autocratic regime informs an amazed population of its newly won prize.

22:56Propaganda carries on where the bombers left off.

22:59Japan's mission is being fulfilled.

23:02The eight corners of the world will be under one roof.

23:05The militarists have kept their promise.

23:08They have demonstrated the power of the Japanese Empire.

23:11They have done the impossible.

23:14Sunk the United States Navy.

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23:23The head of their government, war minister and dictator Tojo,

23:26accepts a conqueror's laurels and rejoices with his subjects.

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24:01Pearl Harbor looks as though the Japanese propagandists are right.

24:06So it seems in the aftermath.

24:09But while the hulks are still hot from the attack,

24:12experts and technicians are being flown in from the mainland.

24:16The most extraordinary salvage job in history begins.

24:20Hidden in the havoc wrought by the new enemy

24:24are the seeds of a miracle.

24:27In the ruins, there is life.

24:31In the ruins, there is life.

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25:31With the dead lies the vision of a shattered fleet,

25:37hidden in a pall of fire and smoke,

25:42and the vengeance of the United States.

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25:56Dead ships sail again.

26:00The fleet has arisen from Pearl Harbor.

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