TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

Description

Summary: Scenes on Japanese aircraft carriers and other ships, of Japanese officers, pilots & planes just before attack on U.S. base at Pearl Harbor. Aerial formations of Japanese planes and the bombing or Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Japanese envoys leaving White House, Washington, DC. with Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State. (Shot list to follow.) YESTERDAY DEC 7, 1941, A DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY, THE USA WAS SUDDENLY AND DELIBERATELY ATTACKED BY NAVAL AND AIR FORCES OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN. FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. MS Japanese war ship. Ext CU Commanding officers of Japanese fleet looking thru binoculars. MS Two Japanese aircraft carriers. MS Camera pans over group of Japanese pilots being briefed. Camera pans over aircraft carrier to aircraft engines warming up. MS Japanese pilot getting into aircraft signals for takeoff. Camera pans up to two formations of three Japanese aircraft. MS Formation of nine Japanese aircraft; formation of three sets of three "V" shaped. AV on airfield (Hickman Field) being bombed. MS taken in Washington of two Japanese dignitaries leaving White House with Cordell Hull. Newspaper men taking still photos of them. (Note: Some of scenes in this subject were confiscated from Japan).

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities