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'Pearl Harbor - 75th Anniversary Commemorative'
(2-DVD / NR / 2016 / Mill Creek Entertainment)

Overview: This 'Pearl Harbor - 75th Anniversary Commemorative' collection includes 8 documentaries giving an in-depth look at the period leading up to Pearl Harbor and the patriotic response from Americans that enlisted to fight back.

DVD Verdict: This new documentary series from Mill Creek Entertainment looks at that great moment in history, where on December 7th - a day that has lived in infamy - shall never be forgotten. 2,403 souls lost - over 1,000 more injured.

This brand new 75th Anniversary Commemorative Documentary Series' revisits the historic day and captures the gripping stories of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor as we mark the aforementioned anniversary of the devastating airstrike that launched the United States into World War II.

Through watching these both color and black and white 8 episodic documentaries, we start at the beginning and in a most unsettling manner with 'December 7th, 1941' (1942). For those not completely in the know, the attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

As we learn whilst watching the other seven documentaries, Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but the USS Arizona (BB-39) were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship,[nb 4] and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded.

Important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 64 servicemen killed. One Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.

The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been fading since the Fall of France in 1940, disappeared. Clandestine support of the United Kingdom (e.g., the Neutrality Patrol) was replaced by active alliance. Subsequent operations by the U.S. prompted Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to declare war on the U.S. on December 11, which was reciprocated by the U.S. the same day.

This 8-Part Documentary - 'December 7th, 1941', 'The World at War', 'Remember Pearl Harbor', 'Appointment in Tokyo', 'Pearl Harbor: Attack on America', 'Victory at Sea: The Pacific Boils Over', 'WWII Diaries – December 1941', and 'Crusade in the Pacific' - spread over 2-DVDs runs for an incredible nine hours and 58 minutes and is a Widescreen Presentation (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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