- Okay, what happened in the first 15 minutes
is just incredible when you look back on it
for what it must've been like for the people
at Pearl Harbor.
Because you have a lot of things developing,
somethings happening at the same time.
You have the attack on Navel Air Station Ford Island,
you have attacks on Hickham Field,
which was the main Hawaiian airbase.
You have the torpedo planes going against the battleships
and dropping their torpedoes.
And the effect that it must've had
was like the end of the world,
for the battleships particularly.
Because you have one torpedo after another
striking their targets against virtually
no opposition at the start.