WWII Eyewitness: Pacific War - Day of Infamy

On December 7 1941 the Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor, situated on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. Over sixty years after the event, eyewitnesses and experts have come together to commemorate this occasion and to provide eyewitness accounts of the bombing and the events following on from this devastating attack. With interviews woven into new archive accounts of what really happened, history is reexamined by those who were involved.

Part of the EYEWITNESS 60th Anniversary Collection, this documentary explores all of the events that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Archival footage, insightful narration, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with various historians combine to paint a revealing portrait of this major world event and its aftermath.