They were 18, or 19, or 20 years old sailors in a tropical paradise. They didn't know that on the other side of the ocean, another group of young men was preparing to strike them while they slept. Their paths would cross for a few short hours on a Sunday morning in December. And in one terrifying instant, more than 1000 of them would die. The legacy of what happened on December 7th still haunts us today. In the first images from inside the U.S.S. Arizona, an underwater cemetery that's also an ecological time bomb. In the search for a top secret Japanese submarine that was sunk about an hour before the attack began. The submarine's heading north starting to dive and in the quest to learn what really happened that day. And most of all, it still lives on in the memories of the men who were there when everything changed. Just a young kid when this happened, and I've lived through it. I lost a lot of my friends. I reached down to try and help him and the skin all came off. But I hope it never happens again.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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