the second wave one swing round from BP
no measures aircraft would go for the major
air bases dotted around the island 198 american's planes
on the ground before they could take all but this
was his prime charging problem where the primary the American Pacific Fleet was
tightly clustered actually unsuspecting
what would you like to come ok
I'm onboard the carrier is the pilots brown fresh uniforms and their
traditional headbands
their ceremony on May loverush and said their last prayers at the shrine is on
board
minutes later they were of the cruise ships
lining the deck waving and cheering you
we listen to the radio the American stations were broadcasting no money
so it seemed they were not aware of any
and then I knew that it was going to be a sneak attack
the attack on Pearl Harbor we should chill but the chance
parent Pohamba that Sunday morning the main event on many sailors mines was the
flag-raising ceremony
it was the same every time 755 a.m. ships companies gathered
and five minutes later the flags would be raised right across the fleet
on board the USS Nevada tied up here with the other battleships on battleship
row a band was gathering on the deck preparing to play the national anthem
it was now just moments before need to man up
the USS Nevada the bondsman
still hot way through the national anthem horrified to see a Japanese plane
release a torpedo today by battleship
and get off strafing national splintering the deck
and shredding the flag
under fire themselves the bondsman finished
the national anthem and then dived for cover
airfields barracks and all of america's great battleships came under attack
just after 8 a.m. a bomb smashed into the USS Arizona
igniting the ammunition store on
down below decks over 1,000 men lost their lives
the devastation this just only on those bombs
you think they'll be having not a heavy steel and
when you see those who restructures just twisted
becomes a steal them
twist just like you take a strong to assessing I couldn't believe
demanded that the station the nation
it America
had lost the best part roots pacific fleet
Japanese a chunk 21 ships like this one the usual
all age of the big battleships were larger faction
hundreds of planes have been destroyed and nearly 2,400 servicemen
and civilians had been killed by attacking Pearl Harbor
the Japanese have made a declaration of war
without parallel the next day
the american president Franklin D Roosevelt
addressed the nation since
the unprovoked and dashed on a layup tax by Japan
on Sunday the somebody 7
1941 a
streaked war has
exist and between the United States and the Japanese
number america was dolma
but not I would
I'm in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor
a new man was put in charge what was left of America's Pacific freed
as more Chester Nimitz he was should have the power
by the president himself is all those not to return home
Japan was defeated
minutes was an experience come on down who proved his ability to instill
confidence in his men
but he had enormous chance Morales plummeted
hundreds of planes have been obliterated
and all the battleships and the Pacific
read out a Mac hey but limits
held one a scarred in
by chance everyone to be aircraft carriers
in america specific please had been out report
at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor
they were now all with some minor from maine striking falls America had
in the pacific
these carriers have a rare dropped would not change on the Japanese
no
no up
in spring 1942 the Americans began their comeback with a daring raid using
aircraft carriers
on board a handful of US pilots led by Lieutenant Colonel jimmy doolittle
were taken deep into Japanese waters this
Doolittle Raid involves 16 at these bulky
B-twenty five bombers they weighed more than twelve tons each
they were really want designed to take off from aircraft carriers but for this
mission the bombers were transported on board the USS Hornet with about 700
miles the Japanese coast
and it 8 a.m. on April the 18th carries little weight is a code
they moved off along the runway just measure take off and head is
toward the Japanese capital No
no
file is due to his men flew low over the ocean
to avoid the patrolling Japanese planes then when they got to Tokyo
they dropped their bombs no I'm
on America across carriers
we're beginning to fight back just over two weeks later
having attacked the Japanese mainland the US Navy
to calm the Japanese Navy at sea com
on may the seventh the american aircraft carriers made their presence felt again
when they engage with Japanese carriers in the Coral Sea
just northeastern Australia the battle so the first
ever attacked by carrier-based planes on their opponents karen's
on both sides want mom No
the American Spanish Singh was me
Japanese cam but the Japanese destroyed one
American carrier I left the Obama
the USS Yorktown in flames out at sea
the Japanese had left the USS Yorktown
ablaze in the water they thought
the date Sun Cup or at the very least cripple her and pusher attraction
what they didn't realize was that there been a ferocious struggle to save the
Yorktown
with one carrying out destroyed and only a few others operational
every carry the Americans had left was bridled
they have to save the Yorktown
for cruise like the old towns hundreds of miles away from land
knowing how to tackle file