Episode Detail: A Necessary War (December 1941-December 1942) - The War
A chronicle of the first year of American involvement in World War II. Included: Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor (he was 17); Glenn Frazier, from Mobile, Ala., recalls the Bataan Death March; and Sid Phillips, also from Mobile, gives grunt's-eye-view of the battle for Guadalcanal. Also: a summary of the war and its costs (some 50 million lives); the internment of some 110,000 Japanese- Americans.
