| Pearl Harbor Remembered | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1755 |
| Catalog #: | 425564 | |
| Clip Number: | 425564-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-097-01 | |
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| Location: | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Anniversaries CEREMONIES: Memorial CEREMONIES: Military, Changing of the Guard LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Hawaii WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Battle, Pacific Theater | |
| Description: | NO AUDIO There is a little bit of audio playing at the raising of the American flag, taps is being played by a sailor in the background. On the 25th anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a nation remembers this "day of infamy". Scenes show the destruction of that awful day which left 24 hundred dead and 18 ships damaged or sunk. At the USS Arizona Memorial, 1177 American heroes are entombed, December 7, 1941. Establishing shot - Honor guard walking up the steps to the USS Arizona Memorial. MS - USS Arizona bombed and burning. Black smoke and fire engulfing the tower of the ship. MS - A bombed out military building. MS - A battleship partially sunk, the top half sticking out of the water. CU - The top tower of a battleship, blackened and twisted metal from the intense fire and heat. Camera panning - Burned and twisted melted metal on the battleship's top half sticking out of the water. MS - A couple of surviving sailors standing on the top part of the tower just below the cannons. MS - The bottom part of the battleship's hull and propeller sticking out of the water. CU - The melted and twisted part of the upper tower of the ship. MS - Part of the cannon sticking out of the water that is mounted on one of the deck's of the battleship. CU - One of the sailors playing taps. CU - Plaque "TO THE MEMORY OF THE GALLANT MEN HERE. ENTOMED AND THEIR SHIPMATES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN ACTION ON DECEMBER 7, 1941 ON THE USS ARIZONA." MS - Parts of the ship covered with rust sticking out of the water. MS - American flag flying, taps playing in the background. Aerial shot - USS Arizona Memorial. (This shot taken in 1966) | |
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