00:07Your commentator is Joe O'Brien.
00:22Here is the motion picture record released by the United States Navy
00:25of the havoc wrought by the Japs' sneak sky and sea raid on Pearl Harbor,
00:31America's mid-Pacific naval bastion.
00:39On December 7th, 1941, Japan, like its infamous Axis partners,
00:45struck first and declared war afterwards.
00:48Costly to our Navy was the loss of war vessels, airplanes, and equipment,
00:52but more costly to Japan was the effectiveness of its foul attack
00:56in immediately unifying America in its determination to fight
01:00and win the war thrust upon it, and to win the peace that will follow.
01:05The Japs copied their German masters in striking hard at airfields.
01:10Hickam Field, northwest of Honolulu, and the Fort Island Naval Plane Base
01:14were the first objectives of Japan's treachery.
01:17Scores of planes were bruised and battered by the Japs' aerial bombs.
01:20Many of these were demolished beyond repair.
01:25Direct hits were scored on hangars, and these were badly shattered.
01:28Equipment and airplane supplies were reduced to smoldering ruins.
01:32Here at the Naval Air Station is grim and positive evidence of Jap treachery.
01:36Here, foul blows were struck, while Jap diplomats were talking peace in Washington.
01:44America lost three destroyers.
01:46Here are seen the United States destroyers downs and shore
01:49as they rest on the bottom of Pearl Harbor
01:51with decks awash after Jap bombers make direct hits on their decks.
01:57First to feel the sting of Japanese steel
02:00are the USS Oklahoma and Utah,
02:02the latter a 33-year-old target ship.
02:05Accurate hits by the enemy bombers
02:06make short work of these two naval bulwarks.
02:09Now, with their keels practically out of water,
02:11they lie helpless wrecks
02:13and a sad reminder of cowardly strategy.
02:17To make possible a surprise attack within Pearl Harbor,
02:20the Japs built two-man submarines
02:22to enable them to fire sneak blows
02:24within waters that are narrow and tortuous.
02:27Several of these surprise weapons were blown from the water
02:30by direct hits of our naval gunners.
02:32Others were beached and captured.
02:36While sky and sea fire were still raging,
02:39salvage crews inspected our naval craft
02:41to estimate what may be saved.
02:46Before the din of bursting bombs had been silenced,
02:49preparations were underway to salvage these two warships.
02:55At low tide, the huge propeller of the Oklahoma,
02:59stilled by the enemy, was high above water.
03:01It is believed that the small two-man Jap submarines
03:04carrying dual torpedo tubes
03:06were responsible for these two losses to our Pacific fleet.
03:29Here is the actual bombing of the mighty USS Arizona by Jap planes.
03:34These pictures were made by a fearless cameraman
03:37who thought nothing of his personal safety
03:39to make possible this record for all posterity.
03:43A single lucky hit was responsible for the disaster
03:47that befell the Arizona
03:48when a Jap bomb falling directly through one of the battleship's funnels
03:51exploded in the engine room
03:53and set ablaze tons of fuel oil.
03:57Dense black smoke billowed to the sky
04:00as the massive control tower began to keel over.
04:04The Arizona's courageous crew stuck to its guns until the very end.
04:09Here was displayed heroism that will live forever
04:11in the glorious annals and traditions of the American Navy.
04:22The once mighty Arizona now rests on Pearl Harbor's Muddy Bottom,
04:27a pitiful relic of its former self,
04:29a grim monument to the treachery of Japan.
04:31The once mighty dreadnought's armor plate is twisted and torn,
04:35but the great battleship's control tower still stands,
04:38a defiant beacon that in days to come
04:40will cast its shadow upon Nippon's very shores.
04:43At Pearl Harbor at Hickam Field
04:45in the bomb popped streets of Honolulu
04:47ever is written history.
04:49History with a tragic, treacherous pen.
04:51History that 130 million Americans will never forget.
04:54And in days to come, the Japs too will remember Pearl Harbor.
05:00Here is a tragic, unforgettable page in the annals of America.
05:04Here the cunning deceit of the Japs will never be forgotten.
05:07Here they hope to score a knockout before the war began.
05:10The Arizona's gun crews, battered and broken, fired to the last.
05:14Their guns pointed skyward from whence the enemy appeared.
05:20The Japs' sneak blow cost hundreds of military and civilian lives.
05:24The treacherous attack cost our Pacific fleet two battleships outright,
05:28another capsized, the loss of three destroyers and a mine layer.
05:33The Jails coasting died.
05:35The Japs' sneak blow, and again
06:01While bombs were still bursting and flames still pouring from our shattered naval craft,
06:06a light United States cruiser valiantly moves out to join the fleet and avenge Pearl Harbor.
06:23June 3rd, 1935. The Normandy $60 million luxury liner comes to America on its maiden
06:30crossing of the Atlantic, an event that occasioned a marine demonstration that will live in history.
06:35Whistles blew and sirens shrieked a mighty welcome to the new Queen of the Seas. The famed skyline of
06:41America's greatest city formed a fitting background for America's greeting to one of the most stately
06:46ships that ever crossed the Atlantic. Six years later, shortly after the United States entered the
06:55war, the Normandy was seized and placed under naval guard. Hundreds of civilian workers were
07:00put aboard the Normandy, renamed the USS Lafayette, to strip the vessel of its costly furnishings
07:05and to prepare it for war duty as a United States transport.
07:12February 9th, 1942. The Normandy afire. A fatal tragedy to the big luxury liner and to America.
07:19As the flames rapidly spread to devastating fury, workers madly scrambled to safety,
07:24while fireboats and fire engines poured tons of water into the stricken vessel.
07:28All fire doors, vertical and horizontal, were closed to protect the ship's vitals from the flames,
07:33but this was all in vain. Dense clouds of thick acrid smoke billowed far out over Manhattan,
07:39casting a mucky pall over Midtown and downtown New York.
07:47While the blaze was at its height, hundreds of doctors, nurses, and first aid workers were rushed to
07:52the scene to remove the wounded and to administer first aid to scores overcome in their efforts to
07:57stem the fury of the spreading flames. Millions stood in awe when the Normandy first reached America
08:03on its triumphant maiden voyage. Again, millions lined the New York and New Jersey shores to sadly
08:08observe the passing of the doomed and ill-fated ship. Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the 3rd
08:16naval district, ordered all hands ashore to save the lives of those who were heroically battling to keep
08:21the huge liner upright. Hour after hour, tons of water were pumped into the Normandy, causing a bad list
08:29to port, as strong horses snapped and tugs strove to push the giant vessel close to the wharf.
08:41Then, during the night, the Normandy met its final doom, when, with a resounding crunch of ice and a
08:46belch of smoke, the 83,000-ton vessel dipped her flame-scarred superstructure into the surface of the
08:52Hudson River. Hundreds were injured when America lost its biggest naval auxiliary. Millions of dollars
08:57of damage has been done, and thousands of man-hours of labor have been nullified.
09:14Accident or sabotage, the world may never know, but the fate of the luxury liner Normandy,
09:19rechristened the USS Lafayette, is one of the major catastrophes of our day.
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