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Vermont Royster offers a possible origin to the phrase attributed to Napoleon, "China is a sickly, sleeping giant. But when she awakes the world will tremble". [2] An abridged version of the quotation is also featured in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor. The 2019 film Midway also features Yamamoto speaking aloud the sleeping giant quote.
Tora! Tora! a fine documentary-style film about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The usage of both American and Japanese filmmakers provides an unbiased film and unique viewing experience, and is uncommon in the genre. [48] A 2018 article described the film as doing "a most memorable job in portraying the whole Pearl Harbor experience". [49]
"Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto: Truth of the Pacific War 70 Years Ago") is a 2011 Japanese biographical film about Isoroku Yamamoto, the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Other English home media titles of the film are The Admiral, [5] and Admiral ...
The film portrays his career from Pearl Harbor to his death in Operation Vengeance. [ 48 ] In Robert Conroy 's 2011 book Rising Sun , Yamamoto directs the IJN to launch a series of attacks on the American West Coast , in the hope the United States can be convinced to sue for peace and securing Japan's place as a world power; but cannot escape ...
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Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
The United States commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Wednesday. Americans around the nation will commemorate the day with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m ...
The Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor destroyed almost 200 U.S. aircraft, took 2,400 lives, and swayed Americans to support the decision to join World War II.