1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 It was a day that would always be remembered. 2 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:42,000 December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. 3 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,000 It's yet in motion a terrible war, a war that devastated both Victor and vanquished. 4 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,000 I don't know what hell is, but I think I was on the edge of hell at that time. 5 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 It has become synonymous with treachery and deceit. 6 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Yet some say the defenders knew when and from where the attack would come. 7 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Earl Harbour. 8 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Beyond what is known as an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms. 9 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:24,000 A land that knows no limits of time or space. 10 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 From the dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe. 11 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 A journey to a universe of the unexplained. 12 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 The unforeseen, the unbelievable. 13 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 A place beyond reality where no question will go unanswered. 14 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 A place where myth and legend are all superstition aside. 15 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 A travel to a world of secrets and mysteries. 16 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It's time for our journey to begin. 17 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Today it's a peaceful place, but only yesterday blood stained these waters. 18 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Earl Harbour Hawaii. 19 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 A paradise defiled by violence. 20 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Knowledge surrounds these library walls, and with these instruments, that knowledge can be ours. 21 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 It was one of history's most notorious Sundays. 22 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:06,000 At 7.53 on the morning of December 7th, 1941, the naval air forces of Japan 23 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 launched a brilliantly planned attack on the Pacific Fleet of the United States. 24 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Birthed in Earl Harbour. 25 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 It began with a rising sun in early morning. 26 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 At 230 miles away, the men who were just waking up in Earl Harbour 27 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 remember what it was like when that sun burst over the horizon. 28 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 I was in bed asleep. Being a Sunday morning, I wasn't even going to get up and go to breakfast. 29 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Moreover, that changed very quickly. 30 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Shortly before 8 o'clock in the morning, I looked over the side and observed a torpedo plane coming in. 31 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:55,000 The first thing that popped in my mind was what in the world is the army doing up on Sunday morning holding drills. 32 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 We thought it was our own planes, and it wasn't until one of the planes pulled up 33 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,000 and we could see the meatball we called it, the red sun on the bottom of the wing, that we knew that it was Japanese. 34 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 And I kind of stuck my head around the corner of the bulkhead and watched the torpedo go in on one side and one on the battleships. 35 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 We started cussing out the Marines for being out there so early on a Sunday morning. 36 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 It turned out it wasn't the Marines after all. 37 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:27,000 About that time, another torpedo plane went by and I saw the big red ball and immediately came to conclusion that the Japanese were attacking Earl Harbour. 38 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 America was shocked beyond words at this seemingly unprovoked attack. 39 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,000 A declaration of war followed immediately as President Roosevelt addressed his nation. 40 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,000 The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked. 41 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 By naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. 42 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Not only was the raid a complete surprise, it was also a brilliant piece of military planning. 43 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,000 A plan conceived by a gifted naval officer named Soroko Yamamoto. 44 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Yamamoto's plan was audacious and unprecedented. 45 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Under a cloak of secrecy, a huge task force was to proceed from northern Japan to a point north of Hawaii. 46 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Six aircraft carriers were to transport the elite naval air forces along with 28 submarines, some that were to penetrate the harbour itself. 47 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:32,000 In the early morning, immediately after the Japanese declaration of war, two waves of attack planes were to engage the American defenders. 48 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:40,000 That declaration of war was tragically delayed and Pearl Harbour became history's most notorious sneak attack. 49 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:50,000 The bombs began to fall at 7.55 am and on the morning of the war, the Japanese were forced to attack the harbour. 50 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 The bombs began to fall at 7.55 am. 51 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 I don't know how hell it would be, but I think I was in the middle of it. 52 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:05,000 I was watching this one airplane that was in my check site and it started to smoke and started to fall out of the sky. 53 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:13,000 It took us about 10 minutes, I would say, before we actually got a round of anti-aircraft gunfire back at those tree-fing aircraft. 54 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:23,000 While I was behind that gun and feeling that I was being shot at and I was shooting at someone else, I knew then that I was not where God wanted me to be at the time. 55 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:31,000 My fear was that right next to our hangar was a high explosive magazine and if that thing was hit, I knew it would be gone. 56 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:39,000 About 15 minutes after it, we saw another bomb come down quite the size of a freight train and that bomb hit the USS Arizona. 57 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:49,000 When she exploded, it blew all of us forward to the front part of the bridge and it just looked like the Arizona was completely engulfed in flame. 58 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:59,000 We found out later that out of a crew of a little over 1,400, only 289 actually survived and most of those survived. 59 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 They were blown off the ship. 60 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,000 2,403 Americans were killed that morning, almost half on board the Arizona. 61 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:16,000 The Army and the Navy commanders were sacked immediately, but was Pearl Harbor such a complete surprise? 62 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Author John Tolan doesn't think so. 63 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:25,000 About December 2nd or 3rd, American Navy intelligence discovered two carriers very close to Pearl Harbor. 64 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Now, this information must have gone to Roosevelt. 65 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 I know some people argue that they didn't pass it on. 66 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 That is impossible for anybody knows the situation in the Navy. 67 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:43,000 They would not have dared to do it and it would have been a dishonor to not to tell the President. 68 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Ever since that day of infamy, these rumors have persisted. 69 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Could such an incredible plot have existed? 70 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 There's evidence to suggest that it did. 71 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 The war of battle has ceased. 72 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 The Second World War is history. 73 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Recently, information has come to light that tells a very different story from the one recorded in most history books. 74 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,000 And these startling facts require closer examination. 75 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 The attack on Pearl Harbor didn't take the defenders completely by surprise. 76 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Two Army privates, manning a Hawaiian radar station, detected the airborne Armada at 6.45, a full hour before the first bombs fell. 77 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Twice, they informed their commanding officers, but they were told not to worry. 78 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 At 7.39, the planes of Brooklyn vanished behind a mountain top and the radar was promptly switched off. 79 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 The two privates went to breakfast, a meal interrupted by the falling of bombs. 80 00:08:51,000 --> 00:09:04,000 The bombs fell with unhearing accuracy. 81 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Partly due to the prior intelligence from the Japanese spy who observed the harbor from a hilltop-founted point. 82 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:18,000 This spy, Takei Ayashikura, hid his identity by working at the Japanese consulate in Honolulu. 83 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:28,000 He was immediately arrested after the attack, but his legacy remained in the smoking wreckage of the Shuttered USS Arizona. 84 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:34,000 It is widely believed by many visitors and even written in some books that a bomb penetrated the smokestack of the Arizona 85 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,000 and plunged down through our decks and exploded, thus causing the sinking of the ship. 86 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:46,000 We have found that the actual destruction of the ship occurred when a bomb crashed down through four to six decks of steel 87 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 and exploded in the forward magazines. 88 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 That area, 1,800,000 pounds of ammunition was stored. 89 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:57,000 A chain reaction explosion ripped the ship apart. 90 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:05,000 She said that she lifted out of the water, broken two near the vial, and found it in nine minutes. 91 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Those bombs that arrived with the Japanese attack force came by a different path than popularly believed at the time, 92 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,000 and this route is still widely misinterpreted. 93 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:27,000 One of the enduring legends here at Pearl Harbor, in particular the story of the attack, concerns itself with a koi-koi pass. 94 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Tour guides sometimes unscrupulously will take visitors to Hawaii out to this area and show them how the planes flew through the past to attack Pearl Harbor. 95 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:48,000 But actual examination of the evidence found that the koi-koi pass story just doesn't fit in with the historical documents that the Japanese put together just after the attack. 96 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:58,000 These historical misconceptions pale before the shocking charges that the attack on Pearl Harbor was known in advance by the American president. 97 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:10,000 One of the growing controversies that we deal with here is revisionist history, in particular the question of did Roosevelt know, did Washington allow this to happen? 98 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Would the American government have known about the attack? Was America warned in advance? If so, why was nothing done? 99 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:32,000 In the first week of December 1941, as the Japanese fleet near the Hawaiian coast, their radio signals were detected and reported by a member of Naval Intelligence working in San Francisco. 100 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:48,000 It was on the 6th of December that my tracking indicated that the fleet appeared to be 500 miles north of Oahu. 101 00:11:48,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I certainly never expected that they, at the time, would do anything with the information that I had but pass it through to Roosevelt. 102 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:11,000 That information went to the head of the captain in charge of the naval district in San Francisco. 103 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:23,000 He, in turn, told Siemens Z and these other people in this office that he had sent the message and transmitted it privately on a phone to Franklin Roosevelt. 104 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I think the president risked his nation's security and risked crippling his Pacific fleet. 105 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:35,000 The answer, once again, can be found in history if one knows where to look. 106 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:47,000 In 1941 the world was caught in the grip of barbarism. Franklin Roosevelt felt that war with Nazi Germany was a necessity, war with Japan and inevitability. 107 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,000 But few believed that Roosevelt would deliberately risk the lives of his countrymen, no matter what the cause. 108 00:12:53,000 --> 00:13:01,000 There will be people that think that Franklin Roosevelt sat in the White House and had advance notice and allowed the Japanese to attack the Pacific fleet. 109 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:10,000 In nearly 20 years of research I have never found a single shred of evidence that would indicate that. 110 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:21,000 The dispatches that were forwarded to Roosevelt said show this to the president but there is no initials on it. 111 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:31,000 And there is still some indications that someone, perhaps in the United States Navy, the Office of Naval Operations, withheld this and did not let the president see this. 112 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:44,000 If you say that Franklin Roosevelt knew the Japanese were going to attack and he allowed our Pacific fleet, a good part of it to be sunk and over 2,000 men to be killed, you would have to think him the worst traitor in history. 113 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:51,000 The information was there, the question is did it go to Roosevelt or was it bottled up in the Navy Department? 114 00:13:52,000 --> 00:14:03,000 No evidence exists to prove that Roosevelt knew of the attack in advance, but World War II had begun and America was dedicated to the destruction of the Japanese Empire. 115 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:10,000 But they too were committed to their aggressive destiny and amazingly enough the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor again. 116 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Only this time the American government would keep the attack a secret, a secret that has now been uncovered. 117 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:29,000 In the months after the Pearl Harbor attack Hawaii bristled with defenses. America would not be surprised again. 118 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:39,000 But on March 4th, 1942 the Japanese returned to Hawaii only this time luck was with the defenders. 119 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:45,000 In a bold attempt the Japanese sent a huge flying boat called an Emily back to bomb Pearl Harbor. 120 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 It arrived to find its target obscured by clouds. 121 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Changing direction it dropped a load of bombs near Honolulu on the side of this mountain called Mount Tantalus where they exploded harmlessly. 122 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:05,000 As the bombs were falling back in Washington congressional inquiries were being held to find out what had happened on December 7th. 123 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:11,000 And the admiral in charge of Pearl Harbor, husband Kimmel, argued to the dev his death that he was not to blame. 124 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:27,000 I cannot understand now. I have never understood. I may never understand why I was deprived of the information available in the Navy Department in Weissland on Saturday night and Sunday morning. 125 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:40,000 One reason Washington did not send the messages of warning to Pearl Harbor was that we had broken the two most important Japanese codes. 126 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:48,000 The excuse was that if we sent these messages to Hawaii it would indicate to the Japanese that their code had been broken. 127 00:15:48,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Even the Japanese diplomats in Washington were kept in the dark about their countries impending attack and they were as shocked as Admiral Kimmel when the bombs began to fall. 128 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:12,000 The Pacific Fleet deserved a fighting chance. It was entitled to receive from the Navy Department the best information available. 129 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Such information had been urgently requested. This information was not supplied to me prior to the attack. 130 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:31,000 If this investigation succeeds in preserving for the future the pertinent facts about Pearl Harbor I shall be content. 131 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:41,000 History with the perspective of the long tomorrow will enter the final directive in my case. I am confident of that verdict. 132 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:53,000 There are lessons to be learned from the last global war. Lessons that cost millions of lives. 133 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Many of the American dead from this terrible war are buried here in a cemetery innocently called the Punchbowl. 134 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:14,000 And though not forgotten some of the dead remain unknown. They lie here near the place where America's war began. 135 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:27,000 There's one serious lesson out of World War II I think in that the American fleet at Pearl Harbor that was supposed to be a deterrent to attack on the United States 136 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:36,000 and in the end wound up as attracting the attack and being at least the immediate cause for it. 137 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:43,000 I think there was an idea in America that we could defeat Japan in six months. We learned better. There was a tragedy on both sides. 138 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:53,000 The attack itself took ten and a half months to plan. It took two hours for it to unfold here at Pearl Harbor and it's taken over 46 years to understand. 139 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:01,000 There will always be the theory that appeasement would have carried the day with Japan. I don't believe that. 140 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Hostility between Japan and America goes back to the turn of the century. 141 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:18,000 One of the misconceptions that was common at the time and maybe still is I don't know was that the Japanese had really enormous expansionist goals. 142 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 That they were really after American territory. 143 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:28,000 The reality of war still exists. The memorials are built to remind us not to repeat our past. 144 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 The men of the Arizona who lost their lives on that Sunday morning are remembered here. 145 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Under water their final resting place remains marked by rust and an occasional oil droplet. 146 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Still leaking after all these decades. 147 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Near the Arizona, practically hidden from visitors, the rusted hulk of the Utah can be found. 148 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Almost completely forgotten today, it too symbolizes this human tragedy. 149 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Or inside as many as 63 sailors still lion-tuned. 150 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:12,000 A mute symbol of the bloodshed between two great nations, two cultures, that should never have collided in such a bloody fashion. 151 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:22,000 As Japanese visitors leave here, they leave some memories of a war that they started on a quiet Sunday morning. 152 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 But they also ask sometimes forgiveness for what happened. 153 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:35,000 They leave behind flowers and they leave behind a legacy for all of us to understand that the price of war for all sides is very dear. 154 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,000 And the understanding and the forgiveness takes years. 155 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Pearl Harbor was a tragedy. A case of the best in men being turned inside out. 156 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:56,000 In combat there are never any absolute winners or losers. 157 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,000 And the Japanese victory at Pearl Harbor only led to the destruction of their empire. 158 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:08,000 That Sunday ignited the last global war, fought to an uneasy peace. 159 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 We may not be so lucky again. 160 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Secrets and mysteries presents information based in part on theories and opinions, some of which are controversial. 161 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000 The producer's purpose is not to validate any side of an issue, 162 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:43,000 but through the use of actualities and dramatic recreation relate a possible answer, but not the only answer to this material. 163 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Air transportation provided by Delta Airlines. 164 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:22,000 While in Hawaii on Oahu, the production staff of Secrets and Mysteries stayed at the Outrigger Reef Hotel on beautiful Waikiki. 165 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Thank you for watching.