Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
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Hey, don't forget about sister podcasts over at the Eastern Front and Pacific War week by week podcast, both written and narrated by me.
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In the early morning of December the seventh, nineteen forty one, the US Pacific Fleet was anchored at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Two waves of Japanese aircraft launched from six aircraft carriers attacked the vessels and their sleeping crews, destroying the battleship Arizona outright and damaging seventeen others, as well as most of the military aircraft parked nearby.
Some twenty four hundred Americans died, another one thousand one hundred were wounded.
Within a day, Japanese invasion forces had attacked Siam, Malaya, and the Philippines.
Jankishek heard the news at about one o'clock in the morning and immediately dictated a letter of support to President Roosevelt, pledging commitment to a new common battle.
The news also reached Zhou Fuhai in Shanghai as well.
On december the eighth across the international dateline from Hawaii, he had heard the sounds of firing as the Japanese took over the rest of the city, and then he received reports that Japan had declared war on the Western powers.
I heard they bombed Honolulu, Manila, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
From now on the Pacific becomes a killing ground.
When Japanese carrier planes descended on Pearl Harbor on December the seventh, they were executing far more than a tactical strike.
They were unleashing the culmination of a strategic vision that had shaped Japanese military planning going back to the 1920s.
The Nan Shinron or Southern Advanced Doctrine.
The Nenshin Run doctrine represented a critical strategic choice that emerged from internal Japanese debates during the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties.
Japan faced an inescapable vulnerability.
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