On the 80th Anniversary (1941-2021) - “Tora! Tora! Tora!” At 7:49 am on December 7th, forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy receive the command to begin the attack. At 7:55 am, the first of 353 Japanese aircraft reach their targets at Pearl Harbor. 8:10 am, the USS Arizona explodes and begins to sink killing over 1,100. By 10:00 am, the assault was over with the Japanese claiming victory and the lives of over 2,400 US military and civilians lost. The United States had now entered the war.
"We Were There... Pearl Harbor Survivors: Eyewitness To History" - features interviews and testimony from some of the last Pearl Harbor Veterans in 1996. With veterans Richard Fiske, William Speer, Warren Verhoff, Robert Kinzler and Joe Morgan.
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