More than 24 hundred people die in this 90 minutes. Almost 200 planes are destroyed on the ground. Four ships sunk, the others burning and damaged. The japanese lose less than 30 planes. But if you're someone like winston churchill, the most useful thing these battleships may be did was exactly what they did do.
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...