Japan / EPISODE
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?