Craig Watson
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4,699 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Craig Watson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The battleship Arizona suffered a catastrophic magazine explosion after an armor-piercing bomb penetrated her four decks, killing nearly 1,177 of her crew in minutes, almost half of the total American deaths from the entire attack.
The Oklahoma capsized after being struck by multiple torpedoes.
The West Virginia and California sank at their moorings.
In total, 17 vessels were
Were damaged or destroyed, and the vast majority of military aircraft at the nearby airfields were caught on the ground and obliterated before they could even take flight.
Over twenty four hundred Americans were killed and another one thousand or more were wounded, making it the deadliest single attack on American soil or territory in the nation's history to that point.
But the attack was not a complete strategic success for Japan.
The US Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers, the vessels that would ultimately decide the naval war in the Pacific, happened to be at sea that very morning.
They escaped any harm.
The harbor's fuel storage and repair facilities were also left largely intact, allowing the fleet to reconstitute faster than Japanese planners had anticipated.
What Japan had achieved in a tactical devastation, it partly squandered in strategic miscalculation.
The attack ended American neutrality instantly.
The following day, President Roosevelt addressed Congress calling December the seventh.
A date which will live in infamy.
Within hours the United States declared war on Japan.
For China, after more than four years of fighting alone, the blow that devastated Pearl Harbor paradoxically carried a thread of desperate hope at last.
The great power Chiang Kai-shek had spent years trying to draw into the conflict had arrived.
It wasn't under the circumstances he would have chosen.
But then it arrived, nonetheless.
I would like to take this time to remind all of you that this podcast is only made possible through efforts of kings and generals over at YouTube.
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