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of

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in the summer of 1942

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these two tiny islands in the middle of
the Pacific Ocean

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Western know why

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work the harsh Aven epic battle the
fought between the navies of Japan

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and the United States it was a battle
that decisively

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altered the course on the second world

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Japan was intense only using its navy to
expand its power in the pacific

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and it has an ambitious plan to destroy

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a main obstacle standing in its way but
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on the United States of America

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the battle report mark becoming a major

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a new type of warfare at sea it was a
jeweled from death no in which

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aircraft carriers and that will play
think the pivotal role

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I'll be revealing how victory or defeat
I'm almost snap decisions American and

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Japanese commanders

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and I'll be exploring the tactics they
use as they unleashed these new

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weapons of war

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decisions

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by the Pirates side go

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I'll be working terrifying christ sake I
think both

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Act II mild-mannered applause ranges in
the pacific

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and I'll be experiencing some of the
horrific conditions in jordan he took

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back

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fish titanic struggle was decided in
five minutes upon

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imaginable destruction five minutes to
turn the balance of power in the pacific

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upside down and transform the rules of
war

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sheep it was the battle midway

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I'm

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the events that led to the Battle of
Midway started here in 1941

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I'll T

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got into the water parts of Hawaii today
america's fiftieth state among the

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world's most

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exotic holiday destinations back in the
nineteen forties

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US servicemen counted themselves lucky
if they are posted here

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sir

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sons

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the December 1941

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but only 15 shopping days left til
Christmas the people have a lot to do

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with taking it easy

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after all United States was at peace

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not yet actively involved in the second
world war

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but the wealthiest Americans knew it was
about to change beyond all recognition

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I'll

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just three hundred miles to the
northwest

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on wall who a freezer warships was
bearing silently down on this island

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America

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was about to be propelled in the world
more true on

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heading on the scene from a hawaiian
island Oahu

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was the combined meet of the Imperial
Japanese Navy

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this Armada had departed from Japan

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absolute secrecy across the full 1000
miles in the Pacific Ocean

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under total radio silence they did not
plan on being detected

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this battle breed was the most powerful
naval force

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ever to put to shame it's been sent to
attack the United States

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by the hardline military government of
Japan the Japanese was shot on building

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an empire

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in Asia and the Pacific and willing to
use force to do it

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by late 1941 Japan here

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was already in control of Korea and was
engaged

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a long war for control of China is also
set its sights on the European colors

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a French Indochina British Malaya and
the Dutch

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EastEnders roughly present-day vietnam
Malaysia

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and Indonesia the europeans were
absorbed in a war against Germany

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should be only thing standing between
the Japanese

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and their vision a vampire was the
United States Navy

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and in particular america's main naval
base

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in the Central Pacific on the Hawaiian
island of Oahu

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them

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name a base pearl harbor

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this is pearl harbor one of the finest

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natural harbors in the world here it is
on the map

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on the south side of the island of Oahu
another channel from the Pacific Ocean

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opening up into a huge sheltered
anchorage

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on the harbor was the perfect haven for
america's pacific fleet by December 1941

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it was busier than ever with nearly a
hundred ships at anchor

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8.1 battleships board up on battleship
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all of them engage in be relaxed
routines in a peacetime maybe but that

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peace

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was beginning to show signs of strain
the Americans but wary of Japanese

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expansion

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and tensions were beginning to my own

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new show abstract they transferred more
about warships

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from the West Coast to america I'm here
to Pearl Harbor

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to be true thousand miles closer to
Japan

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and it was the massing US Pacific Navy

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that the advancing Japanese Strikeforce
was intent on destroying

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on

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be approaching Japanese fried including
battleships

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cruisers and destroyers but at the heart
of urs Armada

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floating and strips packed with over 400

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fighter told be no one mama rock

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the world was about to witness the most
spectacular example yet

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up a new form of warfare at seems

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Japan may have been a country steeped in
tradition

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but when he came to naval warfare it was
almost advanced nations in the world

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amount before front of all this was the
commander in chief

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on the Imperial Japanese Navy admiral

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is a room grew Yamamoto home

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you have a merger was a great visionary
and modernize a

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he was a pioneer naval aviation and that
bird Creek to cross the potential

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of aircraft carriers the latest weapon

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in the naval last Yamamoto good now use
warplanes on these carriers

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to strike at targets hundreds of miles
away from his preaching

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my by 1941

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Japan at around three times more
carriers in the Central Pacific

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and the Americans Yamamoto had reserved
for mobile carrier force

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capable to pursuing japan's imperial
ambitions

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and by Sunday the 7th of December 1941

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6 always aircraft carriers were in
position

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ready to mount a surprise attack on
Pearl Harbor

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game

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the Japanese were battle-hardened
veterans they've been fighting to extend

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the Asian Empire for years

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the man on the aircraft carriers with
the peak skills

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the Chinese Japanese aircraft carriers
recruited by up to two thousand

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highly-trained servicemen than job was
to support squadrons of

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elite pilots who spent years in combat
missions

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flying bomber and fighter aircraft com

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these naval aviators were among the best
in the world they've never been defeated

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and in the early hours on the seventh
and december there only two hours flying

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time away from Pearl Harbor

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every significant American information
on the island of Oahu

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would come under attack the Japanese
Strikeforce would make a landfall

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on the island's northern Czech got
Google point

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here it is on the back gate yellow birch
oh plan to send in

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over 350 warplanes from his carriers

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in true waves first would reveal

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of West hugging the ground to achieve
maximum surprise