WITNESS THE HORROR OF THAT INFAMOUS DAY!

December 7, 1941.

As the day that would live in infamy dawned, many of the service-men stationed at Pearl Harbor were attending morning services. Within hours, the survivors would be praying for revenge.

The three episodes, WIN FIRST. FIGHT LATER., DAY OF INFAMY and WAKING A SLEEPING GIANT, contained in this program will take you through the build-up of Japanese-American hostilities leading up to that fateful day in December. Although war had seemed inevitable for almost a hundred years, the attack itself came as a complete surprise.

You will see the violence and horror of the assault through the eyes of the men who were there – the very men who fought to save their comrades from fiery deaths and watery graves; the men who became heroes. The devastating effectiveness of the Japanese attack shocked the world and it would be many months before the United States would be able to counteract its effects. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his Declaration of War on Japan, claimed that this day would live in infamy. It has.

approx. 120 mins. col./B&W