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 Now on Video: Pearl Harbor—Legacy of Attack
Can Robert Ballard, the man who
found Titanic, solve the mysteries of Pearl Harbor? Tom Brokaw hosts this exploration
into what really happened on December 7, 1941.
 Experience the attack--moment by moment, target by target. Survivors’ stories and a multimedia map transport you to December 7, 1941.
Find National Geographic World War II videos, books, and more--including our new, poster-size Pearl Harbor battle map. Just in time for Father’s Day (June 17) and graduation!
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 Japanese fighter in Pearl Harbor |
 Was the U.S. prepared for the attack on Pearl Harbor? Why were the Japanese so successful? Get the answers to these questions and more in our FAQs about the attack.
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 Japanese fighter in World War II |
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 Cuba Gooding, Jr., as Doris “Dorie” Miller |
 Pearl Harbor introduces you to the fictional trio--played by Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, and Josh Hartnett--that forms the movie’s love triangle. Now meet the real-life servicemen who get top billing in history’s account of the attack.
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 Dorie Miller, ship’s cook on the U.S.S. West Virginia |
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 The movie’s imitation Arizona |
 Get the true story behind the Battle of Britain and the Doolittle Raid, which in the movie serve as prologue and epilogue to the Pearl Harbor attack.
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 U.S.S. California on December 7, 1941 |
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 “Sailors” on deck in Pearl Harbor |
 What was it like to re-create the United States’ shocking defeat? The answers are in these interviews with director Michael Bay, co-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and actors Alec Baldwin and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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 Gun crew aboard the U.S.S. Ward |
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Photographs (left) courtesy Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer, Inc. Photographs (right) courtesy U.S. National Archives © 2001 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved. | ||||||||