Pearl Harbor: How the Most Famous Attack Could Have Been Avoided

On December 7th, 1941, a radar station in Hawaii spotted the biggest formation of planes its operators had ever seen. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty-three minutes later, the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. But that was not the first warning. It was the eighth. In this animated documentary we follow the road to Pearl Harbor, from Japan's rise as an empire and the oil embargo to Yamamoto's plan, the warnings that nobody connected and the attack itself. Could the most famous surprise attack in history have been avoided? 1:50 An empire without oil 3:59 The oil embargo 5:59 Yamamoto's plan 7:22 Eight warnings 8:19 The attack 9:18 What Japan missed 9:42 Could it have been avoided Sources Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor. Warning and Decision Naval History and Heritage Command National Park Service, Pearl Harbor National Memorial National WWII Museum Encyclopaedia Britannica Subscribe to No Man's Land for more of history's turning points. #PearlHarbor #WW2 #History