There's very little of the combat side of this going on. There are heroic tales of men breaking into locked ammunition cabinets because everything is put away. A us Navy that every one noticed was behaving as well as you could possibly imagine under the circumstances. People are even giving up their lives and dying in in silence and resignation. I mean, this is such bravery. You want to avenge people who die in such terrible circumstances as this.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...