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Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raid

History Extra podcast
History Extra podcast
Episode • Dec 7, 2021 • 47m
In the latest episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Steve Twomey speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the immediate run-up to the attack, revealing how inch-perfect Japanese planning and complacent oversights by American military figures combined to leave Pearl Harbor naval base a sitting duck for Japanese bombers.

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