Watch Japanese dive-bombers attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor to spark the Pacific War
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Watch Japanese dive-bombers attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor to spark the Pacific War
On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes strike the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. From “The Second World War: Triumph of the Axis” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript
NARRATOR: The goal was the destruction of the American Pacific fleet lying at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands [music in]. The United States would now be at war with the Axis powers, and the last traces of isolationism were to vanish overnight.
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