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Photographs help tell the history of the Battleship Arizona from her keel laying in 1941 to her tragic end with the attack on Pearl Harbor.

"Fifty years after the attack that plunged America into World War II, 'At Dawn We Slept' remains the greatest account of Pearl Harbor ever written. This gripping study scrupulously reconstructs the Japanese attack, from its conception (less than a year before the actual raid) to its lightning execution; and it reveals the true reason for the American debacle: the insurmountable disbelief in the Japanese threat that kept America from heeding advance...

In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.

The America we live in was not born on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men and forcing America's entry into World War II. Author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, beginning in 1914 with the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, following Japan's leaders as they...

Discusses the American response during the first six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A narrative history based on the experiences and memories of hundreds of participants in the dramatic events of 1941.

"Suggestions for additional reading": pages [109]-111

Filmed as a long-overdue tribute to the defenders of Pearl Harbor, this A & E Special illustrates that the infamous Imperial Japanese sneak attack was so overwhelming in its surprise and force that practically every American soldier, sailor, and Marine who rallied himself to resist it inevitably became part of a doomed and heroic last stand. The program describes how badly these unsung heroes were let down by luck, circumstance, and bureaucracy -...

This A & E Special examines the planning and execution of Imperial Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the incident that propelled the United States into World War II.