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Showing posts with label Tora Tora Tora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tora Tora Tora. Show all posts
Dec 7, 2012

Remembering

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"Class, can anyone tell us what happened on this day in 1941. Yes, Sarah?" ' The Japanese kamikazes bombed General MacArth...
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Dec 7, 2011

Climb Mount Niitaka

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...and the sneak raid was on. Travis McGee: "With every passing year it will seem more quaint, the little tin airplanes attacking the...
Feb 16, 2010

The Olympics

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Many challenges face this great nation. Among them is the urgent need to recruit curlers as cute as the Japanese girls. That is all I have ...
Dec 7, 2008

Tora Tora Tora

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It is more than a middling-grade movie. Tora means Tiger. Said thrice on the morning of December 7, 67 years ago today, it was the signal th...

A Last Saturday of Peace

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PEARL HARBOR -- Fleet intelligence chief Ed layton has only one  pleasant interlude today, his ride in a gig to visit Admiral Pye aboard the...
Dec 3, 2008

Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1941

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In the  office of Admiral Husband Kimmel, Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, the intelligence reports and charts mocked the assembled brass. Ther...
Dec 1, 2008

I dunno, whadda YOU think?

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Monday, Dec. 1, 1941 and the band played on.  Spike Jones.  Washington, D.C. --  Captain Arthur McCollum, head of the Far East desk for the ...
Nov 29, 2008

The Last Peaceful Weekend

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Official Washington at the Limo Level was quieter on Saturday, Nov. 29, 1941. The President was away after a meeting with Hull, Stimson, Ad...
Nov 27, 2008

Don't Worry. Be Happy

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The biggest  player  we never heard of in the Pearl Harbor fiasco was Stanley Hornbeck, Rhodes Scholar,  author, diplomat of note, and exper...