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They were 18, or 19, or 20 years old

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sailors in a tropical paradise.

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They didn't know that
on the other side of the ocean,

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another group of young men
was preparing to strike them

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while they slept.

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Their paths would cross
for a few short hours

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on a Sunday morning in December.

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And in one terrifying instant,
more than 1000 of them would die.

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The legacy of what happened
on December 7th

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still haunts us today.

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In the fiirst images
from inside the U.S.S. Arizona,

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an underwater cemetery
that's also an ecological time bomb.

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In the search for a top secret
Japanese submarine

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that was sunk about
an hour before the attack began.

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The submarine's heading north
starting to dive

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and in the quest to learn
what really happened that day.

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And most of all, it still lives on
in the memories of the men

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who were there when everything changed.

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Just a young kid when this happened,
and I've lived through it.

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I lost a lot of my friends.

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"I reached down to try and help him
and the skin all came off."

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"But I hope it never happens again.

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Nobody will ever know
what it was like,

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except somebody
that was actually there."

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They never had a chance.

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They didn't know what was coming.
Nobody knew about it.

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They never woke up."

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This is the story of a day

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when the history of the world
took an unexpected turn

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at a sleepy little port in Hawaii
called Pearl Harbor.

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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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in the fiirst summer
of the new millennium.

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Sixty years ago, on this island,
a battle was fought,

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perhaps the most one sided battle
in American history.

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It plunged the United States into war

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and, in the space of
a little more than two hours,

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took the lives of 2400 Americans.

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Ever since that day, Pearl Harbor
has been a place of pilgrimage.

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Many of the men
who lived through the attack

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have returned at least once,
to remember what happened

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and to pay their respects to friends
who didn't make it.

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"We remember December 7th, 1941,

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when so many gave their last devotion
of their efforts

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"Well, it was kinda hard,
yes, I'll admit it,

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because I couldn't do anything
that the other guys could.

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I was only 5ft 3, weighed 125lb.

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My battle station was the number 2
loader on a 5 inch gun

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and I couldn't even pick up
the shells I had to put in the gun."

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"How can this ever happen?

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One of the strongest navies
in the world

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and we're sitting here
with our pants down.

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We got caught, period."

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It was one of the best assignments
in the Navy.

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A sailor joining the Pacifiic Fleet
in Hawaii could expect warm air,

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lots of sunshine, and plenty of things
to do on shore leave.

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In the Atlantic theater,
things were different.

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Europe had been at war
for more than two years.

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Hitler's soldiers occupied Paris.

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London was being blitzed
by Nazi bombs.

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For sailors stationed in the Pacifiic,
there was only one threat on the horizon

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yet most Americans new next to nothing
about the country or its people

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who were thought to be
short and near sighted

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quaint little people ruled by
an old fashioned emperor.

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In reality, Japan was
a modern military power

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that had signed a pact
with Nazi Germany.

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Japanese troops brutally occupied
parts of China

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and were poised to move against
other neighbors.

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But the United States Pacifiic Fleet
stood in the way

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and early in 1941,

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the Japanese military decided
to do something about that.

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Why would Japan want to go to war
with the United States?

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What Japan wanted was the oilfiields
in the Dutch East Indies.

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What they wanted was the tin
and the rubber out of Malaya.

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They wanted the Philippines
because of its strategic location.

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Nobody thought that they would ever
come out to Pearl Harbor.

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That's how you achieve surprise in war.

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You attack where nobody expects it.

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It was the brainchild of a 57 year old
Japanese admiral

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named Isoroku Yamamato.

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Yamamato decided to strike
the U.S. Fleet at its home base

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at anchor in the cramped,
shallow harbor near Honolulu.

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Yamamato, he'd studied
in the United States,

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he'd gone to Harvard,
he knew what the Americans were like.

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And he said at one point,

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I don't care if we march troops
down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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We're not gonna conquer
the United States.

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He planned the attack
with the idea that

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if we're gonna have any chance
of winning this war

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we've gotta destroy
the American fleet,

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and that'll give us six months to
run wild in the south west Pacifiic,

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and we can build up a defensive barrier

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that will be very diffiicult
for the Americans to crack

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And at some point
they're going to say, we quit.

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Keep your gains.

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In the spring of 1941,
planning for the attack began in earnest

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although only a handful of
Japanese offiicers knew about it.

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A talented pilot named Minoru Genda
was given the task of fiiguring out

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how to inflict maximum damage
on the American fleet

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especially its battleships and carriers
in a surprise attack from the air.

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Genda decided that a combination
of bombs

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and torpedos modifiied
to operate in shallow waters

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would have the best chance of success.

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Late that summer and into the fall,

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Japanese pilots trained
for their top secret mission.

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They rehearsed the low altitude
attack angles

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they would need over the harbor.

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They practiced strafiing runs
over and over.

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By fall, Yamamoto's plan had evolved
into a mammoth undertaking

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that would require six carriers,
more than 350 airplanes

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and, almost as an afterthought
fiive midget submarines.

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Those fiive midget submarines

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played a curious and little known part
in the attack

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and an expedition is getting underway
in Honolulu to learn more.

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One of the tiny subs almost cost Japan
the critical elements of surprise.

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And that's the one undersea explorer
Robert Ballard is hoping to fiind.

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For the man who found
the Titanic and the Bismarck

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this search represents
a unique challenge.

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It's one of the smallest ships
Ballard's ever looked for

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and, no one really knows where it sank

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Joining him will be a man who was
part of the submarine task force

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six decades ago Kichiji Dewa.

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The midget they'll be looking for
was sunk by an American destroyer

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well before the attack started,

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and should have alerted
the American forces but did not.

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Gentleman, I'd like to introduce
some colleagues here.

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Good morning, good morning.
Sir.

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Will Lehner and Russ Reetz were there
when it happened.

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For Ballard, the expedition
offers an opportunity

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to clear up
a common misconception.

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Well I think most people think that

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the fiirst shot was fiired by the Japanese
as they swooped over the Pauli

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and descended on our sleeping fleet
that Sunday morning,

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but in fact the fiirst shot
was fiired out here

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and it was fiired by a U.S. Destroyer.

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And not only was it the fiirst shots
fiired by America in the war,

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it should have alerted us to that
something was going on.

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I fiind it incredibly ironic that
the attack and sinking

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of this Japanese submarine
an hour before the planes arrived

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did not alert us
and I just fiind that to be amazing.

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Ballard's tight schedule only allows
him two weeks for the mission

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sponsored by National Geographic

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but the search area isn't too large,

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and he does have the right equipment.

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Now, all he needs is a little luck

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November 26th, 1941.

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The Japanese armada slipped out of port
and headed east through wintery seas.

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Six carriers were grouped
at the center of the formation,

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surrounded by a protective ring of
cruisers, battleships, and destroyers

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some 30 ships in all.

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Because the success of the mission
rested on

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taking the Americans totally
by surprise,

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their route would take them well north
of commercial shipping lanes.

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If another ship spotted them,
the mission would be in jeopardy,

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and possibly called off.

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Strict radio silence was maintained
at all times

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as the attack force moved into
position, while, far to the south.

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Five Japanese submarines were already
closing in on the island of Oahu.

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Each mother sub, as it was called,
carried one midget submarine,

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lashed to its afterdeck

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Together, they made up the most
controversial element

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of the strike force.

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The Japanese wanted to put everything
that they had into this attack

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and they had midget submarines and so
let's use them was Yamamato's decision.

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Now there were people
in the Japanese high command

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that objected strongly to that.

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'Don't bring submarines into
Pearl Harbor

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in the fiirst place,
they're not going to get in,

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and in the second place they're not
going to do much damage if they do,

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and in the third place
and by far more important,

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that's going to tip off the Americans
that an attack is coming.

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And it's going to put the Americans
up in general quarters,

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all across Pearl Harbor
and all across Hawaii.

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So don't use them.'

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But they did use them.

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Each midget sub would carry
a 2 man crew into battle

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ten hand picked,
highly trained young men,

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who were prepared to die
for their country.

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On the night before the attack
they would penetrate Pearl Harbor

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wait on the bottom
for the planes to strike

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then fiire their two torpedos
at any large ship in their range.

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If circumstances permitted,

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they would try to leave the harbor
and rendezvous with the mother subs.

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But no one really expected
the submariners to return.

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They were young,
they were enthusiastic,

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they were courageous,

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they were ready to go out
and die for the Emperor.

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And it wasn't a suicide mission.

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Nobody said that quite that way
but that's what it was,

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a suicide mission and these guys
were eager for it.

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There was no sense of
impending tragedy.

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Everyone felt that
we were simply carrying out our duty

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by taking part in a military action

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though I felt that
they might never make it back"

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Day one of the search

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about two miles outside the narrow
channel that leads into Pearl Harbor.

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It was here somewhere
that a destroyed called the U.S.S. Ward

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was patrolling in the early hours
of December 7th.

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I was thinking we were
a little more of that way,

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but Russ said we were
more of that way.

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It's the history that tells you
what you need to know

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and so you have to steep yourself
in the history

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and you have to read
all sorts of sources

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because a lot of history's conflicting.

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One book will say one thing,
one book will say another thing

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and so you have to fiind out well
what do we all agree upon

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and where is the uncertainty?

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Here the uncertainty was

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where were they exactly
when the attack took place?

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Coming in from another direction
and all the historical data.

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Well you know after the war,
and in fact during the war,

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this became a dumping site
and our biggest fear is that

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they dumped something
right on top of what we're looking for,

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so basically what you have down here
is a museum of World War II.

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We don't know what the currents
are going to be like,

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we don't know what the visibility
is going to be like,

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We don't know how the ships
are going to perform.

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So today is a big learning curve.

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Day one of our expedition.

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Ballard decides the work will go faster
if he adds another machine to the mix

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a remotely operated vehicle
called little Herc.

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It's an imaging RO V.
It moves very rapidly,

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we can cover a lot of ground quick
and see a lot of targets quick

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So it's just a good way to go.

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Little Herc is tethered behind

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a bulkier imaging system
called Argus,

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and the two vehicles
descend to 600 feet.

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In the control room, the team gets
its fiirst glimpse of the sea floor.

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What's this coming up?
A cylinder Is that a torpedo?

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No. A piece of pipe.

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This is really exciting every little
thing looks like part of it.

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Well it looks like these are
depth charges,

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there's a whole bunch of 'em.
There's another one.

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As the fiirst few days of the search
come to an end,

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they've seen a lot of debris
and not much else.

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Saturday night
December 6th, 1941.

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Sailors on shore leave fiilled the bars
on hotel street in Honolulu.

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The usual Saturday night crowd
gathered for dinner and dancing.

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00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:45,446
At Hickam fiield, the airplanes
were parked wingtip to wingtip.

239
00:18:51,730 --> 00:18:56,360
And, in the harbor, the warships of the
Pacifiic Fleet prepared for the night.

240
00:18:58,036 --> 00:19:04,441
California, Oklahoma, Maryland
Tennessee, West Virginia,

241
00:19:04,576 --> 00:19:07,477
Arizona, Nevada.

242
00:19:09,648 --> 00:19:12,276
The last day of peace
in the United States

243
00:19:12,417 --> 00:19:14,248
was coming to an end.

244
00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:26,053
December 7th 1941
a few minutes after midnight.

245
00:19:26,798 --> 00:19:29,062
Ten miles away from the mouth
of Pearl Harbor,

246
00:19:29,201 --> 00:19:33,228
the fiive mother submarines prepared
to launch the midgets.

247
00:19:35,807 --> 00:19:38,503
The Japanese crews could see
the lights on Waikiki

248
00:19:38,644 --> 00:19:41,943
and make out strains of jazz
when the wind shifted.

249
00:19:45,817 --> 00:19:48,945
Each of the submariners
wrote a letter to his parents.

250
00:19:49,087 --> 00:19:53,717
Sadamu Kamida was a quiet
mountain boy who loved baseball.

251
00:19:56,195 --> 00:20:00,131
"Forgive this negligent son for not
writing these long months.

252
00:20:00,265 --> 00:20:03,632
We are soon to be dispatched
to regions unknown.

253
00:20:03,769 --> 00:20:07,296
Should anything happen to me,
do not grieve or mourn;

254
00:20:07,439 --> 00:20:10,340
should I fail to write,
do not be alarmed;

255
00:20:10,475 --> 00:20:15,003
for it means I am well and discharging
my duties faithfully.

256
00:20:15,547 --> 00:20:16,775
Goodbye."

257
00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:23,884
The night before they left,
commander Yokoyama,

258
00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:27,389
his crewman Kamida,
and I went to the offiicer's mess that

259
00:20:27,526 --> 00:20:29,960
normally enlisted men couldn't enter.

260
00:20:30,095 --> 00:20:31,995
We ate a farewell dinner.

261
00:20:32,130 --> 00:20:35,861
Later there was a small party
in the offiicers wardroom.

262
00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:41,731
Dewa watched his friends
enter the midget sub

263
00:20:41,873 --> 00:20:45,866
and spoke to Yokoyama one last time
over a phone link

264
00:20:48,747 --> 00:20:51,375
I said something like,
"take care" to them.

265
00:20:51,516 --> 00:20:52,847
I didn't say anything special,

266
00:20:52,985 --> 00:20:56,477
just words of parting said
on the phone, very normal.

267
00:20:56,822 --> 00:21:00,758
Even though the fact that they wouldn't
return was a foregone conclusion,

268
00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:02,883
we didn't talk about it.

269
00:21:05,697 --> 00:21:07,722
The midget carried by Dewa's submarine

270
00:21:07,866 --> 00:21:12,235
was the fiirst to leave released
into the water around 1 a.m.

271
00:21:16,074 --> 00:21:20,010
By 3 a.m., all the midgets were
making their way toward the harbor

272
00:21:20,145 --> 00:21:23,376
except the one skippered
by ensign Sakamaki.

273
00:21:23,515 --> 00:21:25,949
He was having trouble
with his gyroscope.

274
00:21:29,054 --> 00:21:32,148
Without it, he'd have to
take his bearings on the surface

275
00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:35,124
and risk being spotted by
an American ship.

276
00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:42,794
You're sneaking into a harbor and
you don't want to trip the alarm

277
00:21:42,934 --> 00:21:46,529
and let the Americans know that
the war has begun.

278
00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:49,197
And so you must be extremely nervous.

279
00:21:49,341 --> 00:21:51,866
You've got to be just
on pins and needles.

280
00:21:54,813 --> 00:21:59,113
And thenthe fiirst missed opportunity
for the Americans.

281
00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:05,414
At 3:42 a.m., an offiicer
on board the minesweeper Condor

282
00:22:05,557 --> 00:22:09,687
spotted a periscope in the water,
fiifty yards off the port bow.

283
00:22:12,998 --> 00:22:14,966
Condor alerted the ward

284
00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:17,864
patrolling the approaches
to Pearl Harbor.

285
00:22:18,403 --> 00:22:21,133
"I remember about 3,
three thirty or so

286
00:22:21,273 --> 00:22:27,234
we, skipper called general quarters
about 3:203:30.

287
00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:30,815
I don't remember the exact time
remember that?

288
00:22:30,949 --> 00:22:35,648
And we thought what kind of skipper
is this he just came aboard

289
00:22:35,787 --> 00:22:38,813
and now we've got general quarters
and he's middle of the night

290
00:22:38,957 --> 00:22:41,482
gonna start drilling us
and we thought

291
00:22:41,626 --> 00:22:43,423
remember,
we thought it was just a drill

292
00:22:43,562 --> 00:22:47,191
that skipper was gonna be a tough one
to live with

293
00:22:47,332 --> 00:22:51,268
but he was one of the best skippers
we ever had, remember?"

294
00:22:51,603 --> 00:22:54,595
But the ward's new skipper
misunderstood the message

295
00:22:54,740 --> 00:22:57,470
and went to look in the wrong place.

296
00:23:00,545 --> 00:23:05,539
The one thing Japanese planners
feared most had occurred.

297
00:23:06,017 --> 00:23:10,317
Four hours before the attack
one of their ships had been spotted.

298
00:23:11,556 --> 00:23:13,251
And nothing happened.

299
00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:23,393
Sunday, December 7 around dawn.

300
00:23:29,007 --> 00:23:30,770
Aboard the six aircraft carriers,

301
00:23:30,909 --> 00:23:34,743
the pilots and planes of
the fiirst wave began to assemble.

302
00:23:44,456 --> 00:23:48,654
Yamamato's plan called for
two distinct waves of attack

303
00:23:48,794 --> 00:23:52,423
the fiirst to reach Honolulu
at about 8 a.m.

304
00:23:52,998 --> 00:23:55,694
The second to follow within the hour.

305
00:24:00,071 --> 00:24:03,871
It meant getting the right aircraft
into the air at the right time

306
00:24:04,009 --> 00:24:06,978
each wave would take about
fiifteen minutes to launch

307
00:24:19,724 --> 00:24:22,625
The fiirst to go were
43 Mitsubishi fiighters

308
00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:24,922
armed with machine guns and cannon.

309
00:24:25,063 --> 00:24:26,758
The dreaded Zeroes.

310
00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:33,566
Then 49 Nakajima bombers "Kates"

311
00:24:33,705 --> 00:24:39,041
each carrying a single
1760 pound armor piercing bomb.

312
00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:46,148
51 Aichi dive bombers were
next to leave the Vals.

313
00:24:50,555 --> 00:24:56,050
And, fiinally, another 40 "Kates"
carrying specially modifiied torpedos.

314
00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:13,937
At about 6:20 am, the planes
formed up and headed south.

315
00:25:17,716 --> 00:25:21,277
At almost the same time
the fiirst wave turned toward Oahu,

316
00:25:21,419 --> 00:25:25,412
the U.S. Navy got its second report
of intruders near the harbor.

317
00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:31,553
At 6:30 a.m.,
a lookout on the freighter Antares

318
00:25:31,696 --> 00:25:35,632
spotted another submarine periscope,
then a conning tower.

319
00:25:37,669 --> 00:25:40,900
Once again the ward raced
to investigate

320
00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:44,975
and this time, the destroyer found
what she was looking for.

321
00:25:46,444 --> 00:25:51,438
This submarine started to surface
and I'm midships,

322
00:25:51,583 --> 00:25:55,883
right at the rail,
when I see this thing start to surface.

323
00:25:56,021 --> 00:25:59,218
I thought,
wow, what's this?

324
00:25:59,357 --> 00:26:03,157
Then the skipper took after
this submarine.

325
00:26:03,295 --> 00:26:05,160
And of course we didn't know it
at the time

326
00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:10,257
but later on hetold us that
his first thought was ramming it

327
00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:13,838
but he said, this is my fiirst ship
and I don't want to ruin it.

328
00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:22,739
And then all of a sudden number one
gun fiired and they missed

329
00:26:22,881 --> 00:26:26,408
because their elevation wasn't great
enough and we were that close.

330
00:26:27,152 --> 00:26:31,088
And then number three gun fiired
and I saw the splash of the water

331
00:26:31,222 --> 00:26:36,660
at the waterline of the conning tower
as the shell hit the conning tower.

332
00:26:37,362 --> 00:26:39,227
It must have rang like a bell,

333
00:26:39,364 --> 00:26:41,889
I mean it must have been
an incredible explosion

334
00:26:42,033 --> 00:26:43,830
that went off right next to their head.

335
00:26:43,969 --> 00:26:46,961
I mean, remember the skipper
is standing in the conning tower

336
00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:48,800
and the shell hit the conning tower.

337
00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:52,068
You would think he was,
must have died instantly.

338
00:26:52,711 --> 00:26:53,370
Or did he?

339
00:26:53,511 --> 00:26:56,742
Because they then began to dive,
so clearly they weren't dead.

340
00:26:57,148 --> 00:26:58,479
And they then began to dive

341
00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:00,983
and no sooner did they dive
than the depth charges are going off.

342
00:27:09,194 --> 00:27:13,893
And then they exploded and I didn't
see the submarine as it came up

343
00:27:14,032 --> 00:27:17,763
but I'm told that it came up, rolled
over and then went back down again.

344
00:27:24,175 --> 00:27:26,973
After the depth chargers
that we dropped

345
00:27:27,112 --> 00:27:30,980
I can't see any way
it could've gotten away from us.

346
00:27:34,919 --> 00:27:38,411
At 6.51 a.m., skipper William
outerbridge of the ward

347
00:27:38,556 --> 00:27:39,853
radioed headquarters

348
00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:43,859
that he had seen and fiired upon
an unidentifiied submarine.

349
00:27:46,097 --> 00:27:48,793
He repeated the message
two minutes later.

350
00:27:52,404 --> 00:27:55,202
At headquarters,
the ward's terse report slowly

351
00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,706
worked its way
up the chain of command.

352
00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:02,571
For the second time that morning,
the Japanese had tripped the alarm

353
00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:06,040
and for the second time
nothing happened.

354
00:28:16,828 --> 00:28:18,489
Day 10 of Ballard's search

355
00:28:18,630 --> 00:28:21,622
and still no sign of
what they're looking for.

356
00:28:23,068 --> 00:28:25,036
We were patrolling along in here.

357
00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:29,607
The submarine was coming this way,
we were coming this way.

358
00:28:29,741 --> 00:28:32,437
Why was this one on the surface?

359
00:28:32,577 --> 00:28:39,005
Maybe he's not sure but maybe
the passenger in the small submarine,

360
00:28:39,150 --> 00:28:42,916
they are looking
and they make sure the position.

361
00:28:45,690 --> 00:28:49,558
So far, Ballard has covered
about two square miles of seabed

362
00:28:49,694 --> 00:28:53,596
in an area called the flats
where the ward was patrolling.

363
00:28:58,670 --> 00:29:03,266
So far they've seen a lot of debris,
but the missing sub has eluded them.

364
00:29:08,179 --> 00:29:11,046
Each time they pick up
a promising target on sonar,

365
00:29:11,182 --> 00:29:13,446
it turns out to be something else.

366
00:29:16,855 --> 00:29:21,656
A crumpled seaplane, used by
the Navy in the late 20's and 30's

367
00:29:25,296 --> 00:29:27,628
a Grumman Hellcat fighter.

368
00:29:29,234 --> 00:29:32,533
Then part of a similar type of
midget sub

369
00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:35,730
captured later in the war,
and then dumped.

370
00:29:39,344 --> 00:29:42,745
And, fiinally,
something that seems to have treads.

371
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:49,078
"You think so? Yeah,
it's a tank

372
00:29:49,387 --> 00:29:52,823
It's a tracked vehicle.
Well, let's work it over."

373
00:29:58,229 --> 00:30:01,926
Another day's search is
coming to an end without results.

374
00:30:02,066 --> 00:30:04,398
Well we've exhausted all our targets.
Yup

375
00:30:04,536 --> 00:30:06,970
there's nothing left to look at.

376
00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:10,506
Alright, well, the only thing left is
the base of the wall

377
00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:11,472
and that the sub does so

378
00:30:11,609 --> 00:30:14,305
let's call it a wrap and pull it up,
okay?

379
00:30:14,712 --> 00:30:15,804
Out of the pool.

380
00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:26,286
Well, it's not out on the flats

381
00:30:26,424 --> 00:30:30,588
so the only place left is
up against the wall.

382
00:30:30,728 --> 00:30:34,596
So tomorrow we'll come out
with the two subs and take it right in

383
00:30:34,732 --> 00:30:38,259
next to the channel
and look at the base of the wall

384
00:30:38,403 --> 00:30:40,997
which we couldn't do with
these vehicles.

385
00:30:43,474 --> 00:30:45,999
They've used up most of
their allotted two weeks

386
00:30:46,144 --> 00:30:47,941
with nothing to show for it.

387
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:51,544
For Bob Ballard and his team,
time is running out.

388
00:30:57,455 --> 00:31:01,221
December 7th, 1941
7 am.

389
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,620
A mobile radar station
on the northwest coast of Oahu

390
00:31:05,763 --> 00:31:08,129
picked up the signal of
a massive number of aircraft

391
00:31:08,266 --> 00:31:10,496
approaching the island from the north.

392
00:31:14,272 --> 00:31:19,471
They were less than 140 miles away,
moving at 180 miles an hour.

393
00:31:22,347 --> 00:31:25,839
A telephone call went immediately
to the information center in Honolulu,

394
00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:28,214
40 miles to the southeast.

395
00:31:30,955 --> 00:31:33,822
The call was routed to
a private named Macdonald,

396
00:31:33,958 --> 00:31:38,292
who passed it on to a Lieutenant Tyler
who had just been assigned to the job.

397
00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:44,266
Tyler told the radar operators
not to worry about it.

398
00:31:45,470 --> 00:31:48,803
In his mind, it was just
a squadron of American B 17s

399
00:31:48,940 --> 00:31:50,805
due in from the mainland.

400
00:31:54,379 --> 00:31:58,247
For the third time that day,
the Japanese had tripped the alarm

401
00:31:58,383 --> 00:32:02,217
and for the third time,
no one seemed to notice.

402
00:32:03,721 --> 00:32:06,246
It was 7:15 am.

403
00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:12,863
At 7:40 a.m., the fiirst wave of
airplanes reached the coast of Oahu,

404
00:32:12,997 --> 00:32:16,262
guided by the signal from
a Honolulu radio station.

405
00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:22,034
The bombers and torpedo planes
were at 9,000 feet.

406
00:32:23,341 --> 00:32:27,334
5,000 feet above them,
the Zeroes flew cover.

407
00:32:32,183 --> 00:32:36,210
The fiirst wave began to break up
into their attack formations

408
00:32:37,722 --> 00:32:41,123
one to fly inland towards
wheeler airfiield

409
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,418
the other to move down
the western coast to Pearl Harbor.

410
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:53,164
They were the only planes in the sky.

411
00:32:54,005 --> 00:32:54,972
There was no sign whatsoever

412
00:32:55,106 --> 00:32:58,371
that the Americans knew
they were about to be attacked.

413
00:33:05,717 --> 00:33:09,915
At 7:50 a.m., the fiirst wave
reached Pearl Harbor.

414
00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:14,585
Among their fiirst targets

415
00:33:14,726 --> 00:33:18,958
Hickam airfiield
and the naval air base on Ford Island.

416
00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:46,517
Clarence Minor was an airman
stationed on Ford Island.

417
00:33:47,158 --> 00:33:51,993
After all that noise on the tin roof
up there and stuff was popping around.

418
00:33:52,130 --> 00:33:55,691
And looked up and I saw this airplane
come diving down and that big meatball

419
00:33:55,833 --> 00:33:57,664
and I said 'oh shit! '

420
00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,839
And then all hell all over the place
was breaking loose.

421
00:34:05,977 --> 00:34:09,242
Bombs dropping and machine guns fiiring,
and like I said

422
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,941
those things are so darned low
you could throw rocks at them.

423
00:34:17,588 --> 00:34:20,489
Ralph Lindenmyer was also
on Ford Island.

424
00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:24,561
7:55 in the morning,
an explosion woke us up.

425
00:34:24,695 --> 00:34:28,358
And I looked up at the clock
when I fiirst heard the explosion

426
00:34:28,499 --> 00:34:31,627
and felt it and I said
'the Japs are here.'

427
00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:34,972
And when I looked out the window,
the plane came over

428
00:34:35,106 --> 00:34:38,303
and I saw the meatball
on the fuselage and the wing

429
00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:43,346
and i could look into the pilot's face
and i can almost see him grinning

430
00:34:47,218 --> 00:34:50,745
Anchored on pier 1010 was
the utility vessel Argonne,

431
00:34:50,888 --> 00:34:54,915
where 19 year old Charles Christiensen
worked in the machine shop.

432
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,129
And I thought oh
that was a bad explosion.

433
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:00,491
I wonder what happened.

434
00:35:00,631 --> 00:35:04,965
And I opened the port hole up
and I stuck my head right on,

435
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:09,540
out there you know and oh boy was there
ever a fiire on Ford Island.

436
00:35:09,674 --> 00:35:10,971
I thought 'oh my goodness,

437
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:14,636
something is really bad
blowing up over there.'

438
00:35:18,149 --> 00:35:20,276
It took a while
for sailors in the ships at anchor

439
00:35:20,418 --> 00:35:22,716
to comprehend what was happening.

440
00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:29,787
Bert Davis,
a machinist mate on the USS selfridge,

441
00:35:29,927 --> 00:35:32,088
thought it was some kind of
readiness drill.

442
00:35:33,498 --> 00:35:36,092
That's where I was standing
when the plane came in,

443
00:35:36,234 --> 00:35:41,866
I was standing there shining my shoes,
and I, I saw these planes coming in.

444
00:35:42,006 --> 00:35:45,407
Came in and came right straight
across to where the Raleigh was

445
00:35:45,543 --> 00:35:48,011
and I thought to myself
what in the hell is the army doing

446
00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:50,774
holding maneuvers on a day like this?

447
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,618
While the dive bombers
hammered the airfiields,

448
00:35:58,756 --> 00:36:02,920
the torpedo planes descended
to an altitude of a few dozen feet

449
00:36:04,228 --> 00:36:07,561
and took dead aim at battleship row.

450
00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:13,327
Aboard the Argonne,

451
00:36:13,471 --> 00:36:17,532
Charles Christiensen had a perfect
view of the fiirst torpedo run.

452
00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:22,635
He's coming in almost straight
across me at a slight angle across.

453
00:36:22,780 --> 00:36:27,717
And he's low enough that he's
maybe 30 feet off of the water,

454
00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:30,821
which puts him maybe eye level
or a little more for me.

455
00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:33,185
And I can see the man's face.

456
00:36:33,324 --> 00:36:35,383
He's got his helmet on,
he's got his goggles on

457
00:36:35,526 --> 00:36:37,084
and he's looking over the side.

458
00:36:37,228 --> 00:36:40,755
And when he straightened that
plane out, levelled it out,

459
00:36:40,898 --> 00:36:42,525
he dropped that torpedo.

460
00:36:42,667 --> 00:36:45,101
And I thought
'oh my god look at that.'

461
00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:50,139
And that torpedo just went as straight
for the Oklahoma as it could go.

462
00:36:54,745 --> 00:36:58,647
This photo, taken from a Japanese plane
shows battleship row

463
00:36:58,783 --> 00:37:00,842
just after the attack began.

464
00:37:01,452 --> 00:37:05,855
The ripples emanating outward are
the result of multiple torpedo strikes.

465
00:37:11,963 --> 00:37:14,955
George Smith was below deck
on the battleship Oklahoma

466
00:37:15,099 --> 00:37:17,067
when general quarters sounded.

467
00:37:17,201 --> 00:37:19,135
All of a sudden a guy
come over the loud speaker

468
00:37:19,270 --> 00:37:21,534
and just says 'no shit, move it! '

469
00:37:22,974 --> 00:37:24,737
And then we got a torpedo.

470
00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:28,333
I was really so scared I didn't know
what the hell was going on.

471
00:37:32,883 --> 00:37:36,375
The Oklahoma started to capsize
almost immediately.

472
00:37:37,321 --> 00:37:38,754
When they said abandon ship,

473
00:37:38,889 --> 00:37:42,086
the only way we could get out
was through the casement window.

474
00:37:42,226 --> 00:37:46,026
We went out there and the ship
was rolling on top of us.

475
00:37:46,497 --> 00:37:50,331
Maybe we jumped about 5 feet
into the water which wasn't far.

476
00:37:50,468 --> 00:37:53,403
But when you turn around and see
this thing coming on top of you,

477
00:37:53,537 --> 00:37:56,938
you swim for all you can swim
and as fast as you can swim.

478
00:37:57,074 --> 00:37:59,941
Because we know we had to
get around the big gun turrets,

479
00:38:00,077 --> 00:38:02,045
they were coming over next on us.

480
00:38:05,416 --> 00:38:08,044
It went over so fast
I, I just was sure,

481
00:38:08,185 --> 00:38:11,780
I didn't know, but I was sure
they were trapped inside of that.

482
00:38:11,922 --> 00:38:14,413
Because it,
it just rolled right on over.

483
00:38:14,558 --> 00:38:16,423
And there it was keel up.

484
00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:22,190
George Smith had just been released
from the Oklahoma's brig

485
00:38:22,333 --> 00:38:25,666
for going ashore without leave
and it saved his life.

486
00:38:26,237 --> 00:38:27,670
And when the ship got the torpedo.

487
00:38:27,805 --> 00:38:30,740
The brig was in the carpenter shop
on board ship

488
00:38:30,875 --> 00:38:35,938
and when the torpedo hit, it broke
the carpenter's workbench loose,

489
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,071
pinned the guard against the wall,

490
00:38:38,215 --> 00:38:42,481
the bulkhead, and he couldn't release
the other men that were in the brig

491
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:43,882
and they all drowned.

492
00:38:45,456 --> 00:38:47,253
On the far side of Ford Island,

493
00:38:47,391 --> 00:38:51,691
the old battleship Utah also got hit
a few minutes before eight.

494
00:38:53,831 --> 00:38:56,391
Clark Simmons worked on the Utah
as a mess attendant.

495
00:38:56,534 --> 00:39:01,562
And as I looked out the port,
I saw a plane making a run on the Utah.

496
00:39:01,706 --> 00:39:07,235
And as she dropped her torpedo
the wing dipped

497
00:39:07,378 --> 00:39:09,869
and then he straightened up,
and the torpedo hit it,

498
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:12,744
and another one right behind it
did the same thing.

499
00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:24,722
And we knew it was just a matter of
time before the ship was going to sink

500
00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:26,352
And actually it took eight minutes,

501
00:39:26,497 --> 00:39:28,863
and eight minutes to the ship,
was history.

502
00:39:28,999 --> 00:39:32,491
She had turned turtle
in eight minutes.

503
00:39:33,938 --> 00:39:35,701
As the lines began to part,

504
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,834
came over the side and began
to swim toward Ford Island,

505
00:39:40,978 --> 00:39:45,938
and as we were swimming they were
machine gunning us from both directions.

506
00:39:46,083 --> 00:39:50,520
From this direction and when they came
from Pearl City over here,

507
00:39:50,654 --> 00:39:52,383
from that direction also.

508
00:39:58,195 --> 00:40:01,528
I saw fellows yelling and screaming,

509
00:40:01,665 --> 00:40:05,567
some of fellows was in the water
was asking for help.

510
00:40:05,703 --> 00:40:09,764
It was just, it was so chaotic,
I really didn't know what was going on.

511
00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:16,175
But the biggest blow was yet to come.

512
00:40:18,215 --> 00:40:23,152
Lying inboard of the repair ship vestal
was the battleship Arizona.

513
00:40:26,624 --> 00:40:30,355
High overhead a Kate released
an armor piercing bomb

514
00:40:30,494 --> 00:40:34,624
that drifted down towards
the Arizona's number two gun turret.

515
00:40:41,405 --> 00:40:44,135
It was ten minutes after eight.

516
00:40:56,954 --> 00:41:00,390
A motion picture camera
captured the moment of impact.

517
00:41:15,005 --> 00:41:18,907
In that instant,
more than a thousand crewmen died.

518
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:32,149
Stu Hedly was on the West Virginia,
a few hundred feet away.

519
00:41:32,289 --> 00:41:34,120
One gigantic explosion.

520
00:41:34,258 --> 00:41:39,787
Now when we fiired the 16 inch,
you're inside,

521
00:41:39,930 --> 00:41:42,398
it sounds like thunder
off in the distance.

522
00:41:42,533 --> 00:41:44,967
But this didn't sound like no thunder.

523
00:41:45,102 --> 00:41:48,071
This was one gigantic explosion.

524
00:41:48,939 --> 00:41:52,067
The stern of our ship
lifted out of the water

525
00:41:52,209 --> 00:41:55,406
but at the same time
we were getting hit with torpedoes,

526
00:41:55,546 --> 00:41:56,979
we were starting to list.

527
00:41:57,114 --> 00:42:02,984
But we saw about 32 men flying
through the air from the Arizona.

528
00:42:05,122 --> 00:42:10,185
Oil from the fully fueled Arizona
began to spread and catch fiire.

529
00:42:13,063 --> 00:42:17,193
The heat was so intense even sailors
on nearby ships were threatened.

530
00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:20,936
So Clausen and I stripped
right down to our undershorts

531
00:42:21,071 --> 00:42:23,539
and jumped in and swam underwater.

532
00:42:23,674 --> 00:42:25,232
Now we're not underwater swimmers.

533
00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:27,241
But we swam underwater that day

534
00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:31,940
because that was the hottest breath
of air we ever breathed

535
00:42:32,082 --> 00:42:37,281
because that was the oil
from the Arizona that was ablaze.

536
00:42:40,491 --> 00:42:43,688
The bomb had penetrated
Arizona's forward magazine

537
00:42:43,827 --> 00:42:46,990
and ignited more than
a million pounds of gunpowder.

538
00:42:49,567 --> 00:42:53,594
Those who were still alive
found themselves in an inferno.

539
00:42:54,638 --> 00:42:57,402
They were in this oil
that was on fiire.

540
00:42:57,541 --> 00:42:59,406
They were trying to swim out of it.

541
00:42:59,543 --> 00:43:01,340
They'd come up and trying
to get their breath.

542
00:43:01,478 --> 00:43:05,915
Their eyes, the white of their eyes
was just as red as they can be.

543
00:43:06,050 --> 00:43:08,075
I, I can just see it today.

544
00:43:08,218 --> 00:43:11,346
The skin on their face
was just falling off.

545
00:43:11,488 --> 00:43:16,425
And on top of that all of this oil,
they were just drenched in oil.

546
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,029
Bert Davis went out in a whaleboat
to pick up survivors.

547
00:43:27,171 --> 00:43:29,901
Oh God it was horrible.

548
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:35,342
This one fellow started to reach up to
try to get a hold of the gunwale

549
00:43:35,479 --> 00:43:38,676
on the boat from the outside
and I reached down to try to help him.

550
00:43:38,816 --> 00:43:41,751
And I took him by the arm
and as I tried to lift like that,

551
00:43:41,885 --> 00:43:46,754
the skin came, all came off.

552
00:43:49,727 --> 00:43:52,355
He was dead by the time
we got him in.

553
00:44:00,504 --> 00:44:03,371
Thirty fiive minutes
after the attack began,

554
00:44:03,507 --> 00:44:05,407
the fiirst wave flew away,

555
00:44:05,542 --> 00:44:09,308
leaving behind more than a thousand
dead American sailors

556
00:44:09,446 --> 00:44:12,574
many of them teenagers,
caught belowdecks,

557
00:44:12,716 --> 00:44:15,048
when Arizona exploded and sank

558
00:44:30,834 --> 00:44:33,428
Six decades after the attack
on Pearl Harbor,

559
00:44:33,570 --> 00:44:37,597
the Arizona still lies where she sank
with her cargo of sailors.

560
00:44:37,741 --> 00:44:40,938
Most of their bodies
have never been recovered.

561
00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:48,675
Her superstructure was removed
during the war.

562
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:53,312
Only the mount of her number
three turret remains above water.

563
00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:59,156
The Arizona was built nearly
a century ago

564
00:44:59,296 --> 00:45:02,697
and she's spent more than
half that time underwater.

565
00:45:06,804 --> 00:45:10,763
The national park service,

566
00:45:10,908 --> 00:45:14,810
which is responsible for maintaining
the memorial,

567
00:45:14,945 --> 00:45:17,971
periodically checks on her condition

568
00:45:25,689 --> 00:45:28,317
her passageways and hatches

569
00:45:30,561 --> 00:45:32,426
her 14 inch guns.

570
00:45:39,303 --> 00:45:42,568
The interior of the ship
is too dangerous for divers,

571
00:45:42,706 --> 00:45:47,268
so it's never been investigated
by the park service, until now.

572
00:45:53,417 --> 00:45:57,820
With the help of a tiny RO V
made available by National Geographic,

573
00:45:57,955 --> 00:46:00,856
workers will get their fiirst glimpse
of Arizona's condition

574
00:46:00,991 --> 00:46:04,483
deep inside the ship
since about the time she went down.

575
00:46:12,536 --> 00:46:17,530
The initial survey reveals that
the corrosion is worse than expected.

576
00:46:19,309 --> 00:46:22,301
And that may portend
an ecological disaster

577
00:46:22,713 --> 00:46:25,739
because of something happening
deep inside the ship.

578
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:34,280
The Arizona has been leaking
an estimated two pints of oil a day

579
00:46:34,424 --> 00:46:37,860
ever since she sank
but the park service is worried that

580
00:46:37,995 --> 00:46:42,625
the remaining fuel tanks of the ship's
bunkers could rupture at any moment.

581
00:46:42,766 --> 00:46:46,099
Current estimates are that there is
approximately a half a million gallons

582
00:46:46,236 --> 00:46:48,830
possibly in the bunkers
on the aft section of the ship.

583
00:46:48,972 --> 00:46:52,408
And so with current technology
can we get to those bunkers