Title: Tora! Tora! Tora! Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LckXeIlNXuw Published:Apr 1, 2021 Author:YouTube Movies & Shows Post Date:2022-06-12 13:32:28 by BTP Holdings Keywords:None Views:343 Comments:7
Tora! Tora! Tora! is the Japanese signal to attack - and the movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanese positions. Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack. Top U.S. brass ignore it's possibility. Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it - but never reach F.D.R.'s desk. Radar warnings are disregarded. Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported. Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives - in the most spectacular, gut-wrenching cavalcade of action-packed footage ever. You'll see moments of unsurpassed spectacle and heroism: U.S. fighters trying to take off and being hit as they taxi; men blasted from the decks of torpedoed ships while trying to rescue buddies; savage aerial dogfights pitting lone American fliers against squadrons of Imperial war planes. It's the most dazzling recreation of America's darkest day - and some of her finest hours.
Haven't watched it since I was a kid, and I now see YouTube has designated it unfit for kids. Go figure.
Presumably the movie does not include info about how our top brass knew the attack was coming, where and when, but didn't sound the alarm because they needed a surprise attack to shock the "America First" movement out of political existence in the USA, which had hampered the US entering the war sooner.
Winston Churchhill wrote that he slept better on the night of Dec 7th than any night since war broke out between England and Germany.