Watch World War II - Episode 06 - Pearl Harbor

This documentary makes excellent use of news and military archive footage, documents and interviews to recount the events involved in the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941. The episode will appeal to anyone interested in historical accounts, and may especially attract educators in search of classroom material describing the war. Pearl Harbor was a major port used extensively by the United States Navy in Hawaii; despite some indication that tensions between the USA and Japan were increasing during this period, the federal government and the Navy took few steps to protect Pearl Harbor against an aerial attack.