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Show 63 - Supernova in the East II

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

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The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Japanese attack planes swarm down on pearl harbor right as the flag raising ceremony that happens in the morning is happening. It's like out of apocalypse. Now you have explosions starting, but the nevada band would finish the star spangled banner even though they were being strafed while they were doing it and the flag was full of bullet holes. If you want to talk how unprepared people were for a war with japan, even after the bomb started falling, american sailors especially, are looking at this and thinking, it's just a screw up. There will be planes seen all over the island. And in fact, in an event witnessed by tens of thousands of people, one

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