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Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor

S1 E1 · April 3, 1971 · 25 minutes

Overview

At 6:05 on December 8, 1941, the first attack squadron, a total of 350 aircraft, 765 men, departed for Pearl Harbor, ushering in a new phase of the war. Vice Admiral Nagumo, commander of the First Task Force, and Admiral Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Fleet. How do mutual goals and changing circumstances affect their decisions? Was this decision correct?

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