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Sunday, December 7, 1941. You’re nineteen years old, standing on the deck of the battleship USS Nevada in your clean Sunday whites, writing a letter to your little sister: “Nothing ever happens here.” It’s five minutes to eight. The band is about to play the national anthem. And then you hear the planes.
This is the story of how an ordinary American sailor lived through Pearl Harbor and the first week of World War II: Saturday night liberty on Hotel Street, the morning attack, the only battleship that got underway and ran for the sea, the long blackout night when every shadow looked like an invasion, the rescue of men trapped inside the overturned USS Oklahoma, the “date which will live in infamy” speech crackling over the radio, the “I am well” postcards home, and a Christmas without lights.
One week that changed America forever, seen through the eyes of one young sailor.
Animated history of everyday life in war, told through one soldier’s eyes. Characters are composites based on real accounts; events and details are drawn from historical sources.
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