Name: War in the Pacific: Eagle Against the Sun
Uploaded: 2022-05-05T10:35:46.000Z
Description: A chronicle of the fight from prior to Pearl Harbor up until the last bomb was dropped.

A chronicle of the fight from prior to Pearl Harbor up until the last bomb was dropped.

Mill Creek Entertainment

The first wave in what would be a massive and devastating surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet moored at Pearl Harbor.

Hakko Icchiu

In the Fall of 1941, the naval and air base at Pearl Harbor and the escalations on Oahu, represented the greatest concentration of American military power in the new world.

The Doomed Fleet

Though they had not delivered the finishing stroke at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had put the Americans and the British on their heels in the Pacific. The Japanese Navy had been at war constantly since 1937, and it was in prime condition for war.

The Joy of Fighting for the Emperor

Japanese admirals stuck rigidly to the view that submarines were first and foremost an adjunct to the battle fleet; this abdication by the Japanese was a prime example of a lack of flexibility in Japanese strategic and tactical planning.

The Eagle Strikes Back

Even though Japanese war plans were habitually best-case and not worst-case, the military junta on the home island were so surprised by the scale and speed of its successes in the first four months of the war in the Pacific.

High Noon

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were victorious in their endeavor to control as much of the western Pacific area and Southeast Asia as possible; they met little effective resistance as they seized islands from Wake to the Philippines.

Revenge

The Americans were now ready to go on the offensive; early in the summer of 1942, the interception of a radio transmission that the Japanese were constructing an airfield in the Solomon Islands; that triggered a demand for offensive action.

Watchtower

The Japanese war machine, checked and forced to change its plans, was now forced to go in reverse by its failure on Guadalcanal; from now on it was the United States and its allies who were on the strategic offensive.

Silent Service

In December 1941, within hours of the destruction at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces began their assault on the Philippines; by April 1942, the Bataan Peninsula fell; by May, the remaining U.S. and Filipino forces surrendered.

Sho Ichigo Sakusen

By the fall of 1944, the harsh reality of the war in the Pacific became apparent to the Japanese high command; finally, what remained of the Navy was practically destroyed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf which occurred in October of 1944.

War in the Pacific: Eagle Against the Sun

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