I went to Pearl Harbor recently. I never realized how small it was. There is still fuel slowly leaking from the sunken ships' tanks. This fuel is polluting the water and is causing an environmental disaster in the area.
As a bit of an interested amateur of military history I pride myself on knowing a reasonable amount about the attacks on Pearl Harbour and other places on that day, however, this film has taught me a whole bunch of things, about the men women and probably children who died that day. I have watched a lot documentary films about the attacks, but yours is different in that it is more about the things that are personal and not mainstream history about the day. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and insight. 👍. One criticism, the first one I might add, about the narration, right at the end the speaker said, referring to the war, that the war was “ultimately won by America “, sorry but that is totally incorrect and insulting to the hundreds of thousands of people from many nations who fought alongside, as comrades, of the American service personnel and many many of them died doing so, not just for the American principles and way of life but for their own nation and that of many many nations that Japan had and would subjugate, not just in the Pacific theatre but in all theatres of WWII. Lots of documentaries fall foul of this when narrating the subject, and unfortunately, you have also. Lest we Forget, every man women and child who died between 1939 and 1945 from every allied nation.
Not really, the United States of America politics forced the hand of the Empire of Japan. Also England revoked treaties it made with the Empire of Japan. Personally I think Institutionalized racist ideology were at the base of these decisions. This does not mean that the Empire of Japan was without flaw. It on it turn treated the people of Asia in a similar fashion. Power hungry mentality does not take individual lives into account. Even when millions of lives are at stake.
