AFTERMATH OF PEARL HARBOR ATTACK & DECLASSIFIED FOOTAGE RELEASED IN 1942 23582

Support Our Channel : Stock footage note: some portions of this film may not be licensable. Please contact us prior to use for more information. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, this WWII propaganda newsreel purports to show previously classified footage of the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, including shots of the crippled USS Arizona. It also shows the salvage of the battleship West Virginia in Pearl Harbor. The battleship USS California, as well as USS Nevada, USS Maryland, USS Oklahoma and mine layer USS Oglala is also shown, as well as wreckage of sea planes and aircraft on Ford Island. The film also features and celebrates Al Brick, the veteran Movietone Newsreel cameraman who was at sea with the Pacific Fleet in 1940-41, and who filmed the Japanese attack. It was by all rights got the “scoop of the war“ for the American press. Fox Movietone News released this single-subject newsreel on December 7th, 1942 to celebrate the work of