On a Wind and a Prayer
The True Story of the Japanese Bomb Attacks on North America during World War II
Just weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the beaches and headlands of the Pacific North West coast were full of thousands of alert Military and Civil Defense personnel, scattered along there entire length and dedicated to patrolling and gazing out to the distant horizon, waiting to defend their nation from a potential Japanese invasion that never seemed to come.
After four years of continual conflict, Japan’s Imperial Army was being pushed back to the verge of defeat. As victory appeared close, most mainland Americans still considered their homeland a safe haven, a secure base from a world still at war.
What they were unaware of was that the war was about to come closer to home than they could have ever imagined. Incredible as it might sound, in the late fall of 1944 and spring of 1945 a deadly and silent invasion of North America was finally to take place! This is the remarkable story of that invasion and of a last desperate attempt by the Japanese Imperial Forces to change the tides of World War II.
The Documentary film, On a Wind and a Prayer retraces this unusual and incredible story and the events that led up to it, and its outcome. It provides startling visual images, both new and archival, its unusual stark black and white images serve the function of providing the viewer with an actual document and insight into the background of the ingenious construction and secret mission of the Fugo weapon. The computer graphic reconstruction of the Fugo weapons functions and its gracefulness in flight pull the viewer into the strange, and at times bizarre nature of these forgotten historical attacks on the United States and Canada during World War II.
DVD - 60 min - English - 16:9 PAL
new DVD
Vienna, Austria - 2008 - Michael White Films
Art.Nr. 9503
