Recovering from Disaster: Pearl Harbor and After by Dr. Rob Citino

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor stunned America: the tragic loss of life, the crippling of the US Pacific Fleet, the suddenness of it all. US leaders and military commanders had to fashion a response, literally overnight, one that responded to the immediate problem, but also looked ahead and laid the groundwork for victory in World War II.

Join Robert M. Citino, PhD, Executive Director of the Museum’s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, for an Online Lunchbox Lecture on how the United States rebounded from the catastrophe of December 1941.

[LukoHevia]

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[omkarshinde]

Please do more of these, great stuff from a great historian

[HypnosisSuperFan]

Dr Citino never disappoints, Thanks for doing this great video. Please do more!

[showbuster]

Rob Citino does it again! absolute masterpiece. Well done.

[Stephen-wbwf]

I much more dig the videos like this with JUST Dr. Citino belting out an amazing lecture.

[christianm]

I truly enjoyed studying under Dr Citino. I was able to take a number of his classes while in college.

[Jon.A.Scholt]

My grandmother installed wiring in B-24s at Willow Run! Apparently you had to be small to fit in certain nooks and crannies. She said she absolutely loved the work, the girls she worked with and the sense of purpose; those things made it enjoyable. But she also said she they never forgot about their husbands and brothers who were fighting ( her husband, my grandfather, was a radio operator on a B-17 in the Pacific that wasn't used as a bomber but as a long range transport. My other granddad was an army surgeon only a couple years out of medical school and served in Burma). As an Ann Arbor native and located close to Willow Run, I was able to visit the museum there a few times. Proud to be a native Michigander!

[danbushman]

Love the lectures and people on this site.

[cpawp]

Great - thank you to National WW2 Museum and to Dr. Citino, for the lecture and especially for the Literature references.

[hobbitreet]

I really enjoy your work, the energy you project is out standing.

[timothyh]

I would love to see Robert Citino and Victor Davis Hanson do a seminar together on WWII.

[johncunningham]

It will probably never happen, but I’d love to meet Dr. Citino. There is not, on the subject of WWII, a better lecturer than he. Dr. Citino has expertise and charisma, which makes his talks engagingly informative. I’d also strongly recommend his books. The Wehrmacht Retreats, in particular, is spectacular.

[carlgolec]

Wonder if you and John Parshnall would ever do a book together on Japanese/German relations in the Axis coalition ?

[bobkohl]

The Shaw was not completely destroyed. It was refloated, temp bow welded on and sent back to the US for rebuilding. The floating dry dock it was in and also salvaged

[JLWestaz]

Was PH really that disastrous. We primary lost our Battle Ships in the Pacific. However, WWII wasn't fought with battleships. In the Pacific against Japan it was fought with aircraft carriers. Battle Ships were used effectively in past wars. In WWII Battle Ships had a limited use. There assigned job could easily have been assigned to other ships.

The Battle Ships lost at PH were to slow to keep up with the fleet carriers, so wouldn't be able to protect the fleet carrier. USN task force that were created and used in the Coral Sea and at Midway didn't really have a role for the old slow Battle Ships.

The Iowa class Battle Ships could make 33 knots, and were commissioned in 1943. The had a useful role
late in the war.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Aside from Dr Citino's expertise, I like any guy who likes a Martin 12-string.

[gerryconstant]

The National WWII History Museum was originally the D Day Museum founded by author Stephen Ambrose(Band Of Brothers, etc)because the landing craft was built in New Orleans by Andrew Higgins. Ambrose was a professor at UNO, where I studied in the early 70s. It expanded to the entire war to receive more funding. My than high school grandson took an Advanced Placement WWII History Class & used the museum's large library. His class even attended several conferences for college professors from all over the world. They even did podcast about the war with his being on Operation Torch in N Africa. He is now a plebe at a US Military Academy.

[escoffier]

Dr. Citino, please add volume to the ends of your sentences. Thanks for the show.

[roadtrip]

Understanding The scope ot the gifting of the future by my father, his brothers, my wife's father and uncles in service, in harms way, grows as i listen to our knowledgeable historians when they tell the tale of those dark days for our nation and the world.

[richardscott]

Much has been said and written about the state of preparedness of the Americans on the eve of Pearl Harbour. When learning history its essential to recall that people at the time were living these events forward. They lacked the benefit of hindsight. I recall the words of a naval historian, ( perhaps John Parshall), who noted that on December 7, 1942, NO NAVY in the world was capable of executing an attack like the attack on Pearl except the Japanese navy.what’s more, even a mere three months earlier, no navy in the world could have executed the attack including the Japanese navy. With that fact in mind, it’s much easier to understand some of the judgements that were made.