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U.S. At War: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
In a few minutes the referee would take the center of the ring to announce the fight. The champion was not too apprehensive. He had got himself into fairly good condition and the challenger had only half his weight and half his reach. The champion stood in his corner, still talking to his seconds, and…
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BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: One Year of War
The first year was ending, and it had been a Navy year. The tall, taut man who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) let his mind go back to the morning of Pearl Harbor, and observed that the Japanese probably had not expected their attack…
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Battleship Oklahoma, Wrecked At Pearl Harbor, Afloat Again
Source: McMurtry, Charles H. “Battleship Oklahoma, Wrecked At Pearl Harbor, Afloat Again.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12 Feb. 1944, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch/138054345/
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U.S. At War: Remember Pearl Harbor
Ever since Pearl Harbor, many a U.S. citizen has wondered why the fleet was bottled up, in port, on Dec. 7, an easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu””the Japanese,…
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U.S. At War: Dec. 7 to Nov. 7
The amount of the Administration’s responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster was up again last week. Republican Representative Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, in a speech at St. Paul repeated the oft-made charge that responsibility for the disaster rested solely with President Roosevelt and other high Administration officials. His specific claim: that they had six…
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Pearl Harbor Report
Source: “Pearl Harbor Report.” The Herald-Press, 19 Dec. 1944, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-press/136115052/
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Pearl Harbor Report: Who Was to Blame?
For almost a year the official Army & Navy reports on Pearl Harbor had lain under cover, marked “Secret.” Last week, the excuse was good no longer: President Truman made them public. In a week of formal triumph over Japan, few citizens had the inclination to read the story of the first U.S. defeat, three…
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NEWSREEL: Time Magazine – THE CONGRESS: Forget Pearl Harbor?
September 24, 1945 – In one of several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged “People of America, won’t you forget Pearl Harbor?” Perhaps some of the U.S. people were ready to, but their representatives in Congress were not. The House promptly passed the…
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THE CONGRESS: Forget Pearl Harbor?
In one of several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged “People of America, won’t you forget Pearl Harbor?” Perhaps some of the U.S. people were ready to, but their representatives in Congress were not. The House promptly passed the Senate resolution for a…