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This two day tour is the ultimate Pearl Harbor and World War II experience. We will take you back to Sunday December 7, 1941 when the Imperial Japanese Navy launched an astonishing assault on the US Pacific fleet in its moorings at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

On your way to Pearl Harbor our WWII expert guide will explain in detail the events which led up to the attack. Once you arrive at the Arizona Memorial you'll embark on an experience of drama and devastation which is now known as "a date that will live in infamy". Your Pearl Harbor experience begins with a brief film showing actual footage of the attack.

After the film, board a Navy shuttle boat which will take you to the site of the USS Arizona, an attractive commemorative monument. Look down and see the actual battleship sunken below, easy to see above the clear Pacific Ocean. As you peer from above, see the "Black Tears of the Arizona," which still ooze out of the ship wreckage, mourning all of those who were lost that dreadful day.

Following your chilling experience of the Arizona Memorial and tour of Pearl Harbor, we will take you on an air tour guaranteed to remain in your memory forever. Your flight will actually trace the path the Japanese Zero aircrafts took on their way to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The 30 minute scenic air tour will fly west out of Honolulu airport headed for the pristine Waianae coast and over the expansive Eva plains, dotted with pineapple fields and located in the foothills of the prominent Waianae mountain range. After soaring over the mountains you'll fly the exact same path, through the infamous Kolekole valley, as the Japanese Zeros' flew. Each Japanese aircraft was headed toward a clever pre-emptive strike which was condemned by the world as one of the greatest acts of treachery in modern history. Feel what it must have been like to fly toward destiny!

Tora, Tora are the code-words used by the Japanese pilots to signify that absolute surprise was accomplished (tora is Japanese for "tiger" but on this occasion, "to" is the opening syllable of the Japanese word totsugeki, meaning "charge" or "attack", and "ra" is the opening syllable of raigeki, meaning "torpedo attack").

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