Im here at pearl harbor. Welcome to war soirz. It was right here at 7 55 on sunday december 7th, 1941 that the empire of japan launched the savage surprise attack on u. S. Forces in the pacific. When it was over 2,403 americans were dead, 21 warships were sunk or damaged, and six air fields had been bombed. But what many do not know is that it wasnt just an air raid. The Japanese Imperial navy also planned to attack the u. S. Pacific fleet with a secret weapon five midget submarines. Fortunately, their attack was foiled. In part by the Alert Response of uss ward, an old destroyer manned by a reserve navy crew. For more than 60 years members of the ward maintained that they had sunk one of the japanese midget subs shortly before the air attack began. Yet no evidence could ever be found to prove their claim. Then on august 28th, 2002 just a few miles outside the mouth of pearl harbor a research submarine from the Hawaii Undersea Research laboratory had a discovery that confirmed the dest
Museum with the pacific war fredericksbu fredericksburg, texas. Fredericksburg, texas. Within hours of the attack on pearl harbor, attacked philippines and guam and also set sites 2,000 miles west of hon honolulu known as wake island. A handful of soldiers and about a thousand civilian contractors looked like an easy target for the japanese. They were dead wrong. Outgunned, they battled back for 16 games against Imperial Japan. Tonight meet the heroes of the battle for wake island who took on japan. In late 1936 pan american air waves, mammoth luxurious boats began carrying their wealthy clientel across the passive to the orient and australia. Needing to refuel along the way one of their stops was an island called wake island. They did have the wake island hote ohn theou ahor of e baleor keisand. Eopl wou comout and enjoy great food at the hotel. Spend the rest of their day in their stop over Walking Around and realizing theres not a heck of a lot on this place. Thats putting it mildly
And such a date and to go down to core level and in some cases division level. Its pretty specific reports. I only copied one or two of them for the paper. There are about eight or nine. You may have looked at them, actually. Actually. One thing i just discovered last month, in a conference in australia, and it was published in publication in Australia National university, the australians found out through diplomatic intercepts that there were sources and can bharara which we know were a couple of soviet spies handing over top level intelligence reports australian senior armed forces, both on intelligence estimates and plans for operations in the philippines by the u. S. Those that agent communicated them apparently to moscow. Moscow then sent it to the Council General because the japanese were maintaining the charade that manchuria was an independent country and had diplomatic relations. The subjects have diplomatic they hand over to the japanese the intelligence reports that they gen
Translator even when my life ends, the dangers of radiation and fears of radiation will live on because i have passed on my genes to my sons and my grandsons and granddaughters. And because there are Still Nuclear reactors in japan and around the world, there is the possibility that new hibakushi will be born in this world. So in order to prevent any more disasters from happening in the future, i would like to do my best to pass on my story to many people around the world so that we can truly work for a nuclearfree and nuclear powerfree world. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you very much. [ applause ] during this last week of Congress Summer recess, the cspan cities tour continues at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. We head to wheeling, West Virginia, to travel the national road. The first major highway built by the national government. We look at civil war battle flags and recount senator Joe Mccarthys red dating enemies from within speech which he delivered in wheeling in 1950. Our visit
You. They show the japanese kneeling in reference before reverence for the radio freedom they have to endure the unendurable. Notice he does not say surrender. [laughter] i will get to that if i have time. Surrender implicitly their sacred soil to the barbarians. That was an account that some japanese could not even believe they heard from the formal Court Dialect it would dialect. It would be like someone from canton going to someone in beijing in the 13th century. A lot of them did not understand. They understand enough to do one thing they had lost. Only a week earlier, the first atomic bombs had been dropped on the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki by the United States Army Air Force. It was still the Army Air Force at that time. That is what happened. I will go through after. This happened after u. S. Submarines and aircraft essentially destroyed japanese red blood cells of the maritime empire, her merchant fleet, especially the heavy movers, the oilers. Economy reliedc on that. Th