As the 76th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor nears, PBS Hawai‘i will devote three days of prime-time programming to the historic event, starting Tuesday.
Some of the shows are encore broadcasts while others are making their Hawaii premiere.
TUESDAY
>> 7:30 p.m.: “Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox” will re-air a 2014 interview with Daniel Martinez, chief historian at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. Along with sharing the stories of Pearl Harbor survivors, he talks about his own connection to the events of Dec. 7, 1941.
>> 8 p.m.: Tom Selleck narrates the 2016 documentary “Remember Pearl Harbor,” offering first-person accounts by military veterans and Hawaii residents. Japan’s chief commander during the attack, Mitsuo Fuchida, is also featured along with archival footage, photos and graphics explaining the events at Pearl Harbor, Hickam Field and elsewhere on Oahu.
>> 9:30 p.m.: A “Long Story Short” from 2016 features Jimmy Lee, who lived about a mile from Pearl Harbor in 1941 and was just 11 years old when he made eye contact with a Japanese bomber pilot flying over his family’s farm. Lee shares details of his decades-long search for his best friend, whose family vanished after the attack.
WEDNESDAY
>> 8 p.m.: The local premiere of the documentary “Journey Home to the USS Arizona,” follows family members of Raymond Haerry Sr., a USS Arizona survivor who died in 2016, as they deliver his ashes to his final resting place aboard the sunken battleship.
>> 9 p.m.: “Lt. Onoda’s Return: The Untold Story of a Japanese War Straggler,” produced by Japan’s NHK and getting its Hawaii premiere, tells the story of intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda’s experiences as a “war straggler” on Lubang Island in the Philippines.
>> 10 p.m.: Another NHK special, “Road to Redemption,” explores the post-war experiences of Japanese commander Fuchida and U.S. Air Force Cpl. Jacob DeShazer, who both became devout Christians and visited each other’s home countries to spread messages of forgiveness.
THURSDAY
>> 8 p.m.: “Insights” presents “A Tribute to One-Puka-Puka,” a live discussion featuring historians and past and present members of the 100th Infantry Battalion.
>> 9 p.m.: The Hawaii premiere of “Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawai‘i” shares the story of a nisei from Hawaii and member of the 100th Infantry Battalion who served in Europe and, as a Pentagon linguist, helped shorten the war in the Pacific.
