Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Despite the extensive coverage of the event, these are things you may not have known about the fated day of December 7, 1941. From an American Radar detecting the approaching plane, to the environmental impact the bombing had on Pearl Harbour, to the one member of congress who voted against the bombing, these facts may shock you. WatchMojo counts down ten things you didn’t know about the attack on Pearl Harbour.
Want to learn more about important moments in our history? Check out our other videos of the Top 10 Most Despicable War Crimes in History: the Top 10 Battles in History: and the Top 10 Strangest Unsolved Mysteries of WWII:
#10: American Radar Detected Approaching Planes
#9: The U.S. Captured Its First P.O.W. At Pearl Harbor
#8: 23 Sets of Brothers Died in the Attack on the USS Arizona
#7: The Attack Left an Enormous Environmental Effect on Pearl Harbor
#6: A Senior Japanese Official Opposed the Attack
#5: One Member of Congress Voted Against War with Japan
#4: Roosevelt Almost Didn’t Use the Word “Infamy” In His Speech
#3, #2 & #1???
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My dad owned a piece of the one plane that got shot down at Pearl Harbor
The only problem with this video is that the narrator kept calling the sailors at Pearl Harbor. Not trying to start any YouTube scuffle, just wanted to let watchmojo know there is a big difference between soldiers(army) and sailors(navy). Again, just friendly info. Not trying to be a dick.
P.S. Airforce has Airmen and marines are just marines (duh)
Number #1 almost made me tear up… God Bless the USA
Number 11 The outside world DO NOT CARE
Profiting off death, once again Watchmojo.. tisk tisk.
I'm watching the movie like right now, what a coincidence!
"As a woman, I can't go to war so I refuse to send anyone else" is a noble sentiment but when you think about it they could ALL say, "As a wealthy old man I won't go to war" and then what? We never defend ourselves again?
Let's play Pearl Harbor, I lie down and you blow me to heaven!
Sailors not Soldiers.
Today is the day.. I was born and raised in Honolulu and I can’t help but feel extremely bitter about this event. Is it wrong to feel such resentment even though it has been 80 years? I feel so immature but I really can’t deny it.
7 ways WatchMojo continue to make me click on their videos.
How.
Okay all of you are saying what they did wrong, so what they did it is still one of the worst days in U.S. history so we should simply say thank you for paying homage to those who died on that day and may they rest in peace.
You butchered the Hawaiian word
damn media
Hawaiian is straight butchered in this video
“Toes Tora Tora” is hands down the best movie ever made on Pearl Harbor and the events leading to war.
And Yamato was also against war with the United States, he believed Japan could never win a protracted war with an industrial power like the United States but when given his orders he did his best by trying to cripple the US Fleet in the opening blows.
Why is that ship still leaking?..oh wait thats right America is broke
I live in Hawaii and we still have ships in the water
So wait why do the Japanese visit Pearl Harbor so much? I'm not trying to sound like a dick or anything of the nature, I'm just curious as to why. I really hope it doesn't have anything to do with pride. /:
So, WatchMojo has become Cracked.com?
Tried as a war criminal… For not agreeing on an attack… sometimes, I am ashamed to be human
i heard the US had a formal warning from the empire of Japan the day before, but they dismiss it saying that is what they need to enter the war. Same tactic Jorge W bush did to enter the war in Iraq , they totally know about the 9/11 and did nothing to prevent it to then have a good excuse to attack Iraq. the same tactic they doing to take people their guns, stage a mass murder and then have a reason to ban guns from the people.
America vs Japan next year America and philipines vs japan
I knew all of these. “You didn’t know” is incorrect this time.
A couple points that are general knowledge, a couple that are total no brainers, and a couple that are so nitpicky it's not even funny anymore. The number 1 was the only even slightly interesting fact that I didn't know.
Option to be laid on the ship you onced take duty, well i guess Once a sailor, always a sailor.
FDR did Pearl Harbor.
Why haven't/didn't just suck the oil out?
It was infact not common to put blood relatives on the same ships or units during wartime. They happened to be on the Arizona because the US was not at war.
narrator keeps butchering Japanese names
I studied that yesterday
HEY WM
Do video about top ten missions in Far Cry series !!!
For number 6 Yamamoto didn't want to fight the US either but did it because he was ordered to.
I love what Michael bay did with his pearl harbour
What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?
Everyone predicted the attack. The Russians, the British, both nationalist and communist Chinese…
its not wagner, its vagner.
Lol she said yo mama toe
True Fact- one of the ships (can't remember) one of the rooms never got flooded and several survivors were stuck, they all died sometime later. During a search of the ship they found it along with a calender with days past the 7th.