Pearl Harbor

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  1/19/20
  

  A black mess attendant was a Pearl Harbor hero. Now an aircraft carrier will have his name.

  Even without gun training, Doris Miller jumped behind one of the unmanned Brownings, swung it skyward and fired until his belt was empty and crew members were ordered to abandon ship.

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• SOURCE: PolitiFact
  1/14/20
  

  Fact check: After Pearl Harbor, Japanese didn't invade US because they feared armed citizens?

  Four experts told us there is no evidence that Japan ever seriously considered such an invasion and that military limitations, not Americans armed with hunting weapons, were the reasons why.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7-27-18
  

  Newly released 1941 memo says Emperor Hirohito ‘at ease’ with attack on Pearl Harbor

  A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II.

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• 5/27/18
  

  These Investigations All Took Much Longer than Mueller’s Probe Has So Far

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  History suggests the need for patience.

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• 2/11/18
  

  We All Remember FDR’s Speech Explaining Why We Went to War Against Japan …

  by Gerard N. Magliocca

  But why did we go to war with Nazi Germany? Few recall FDR’s explanation. We should.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-26-16
  

  Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor just as the spectre of internment returns

  by Rachel Pistol

  While everyone is familiar with the most obvious consequence of the Pearl Harbor attack, the assault kicked off a number of events in the US itself that still resonate today – none more so than the policy of internment, which involved the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.

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• SOURCE: KITV
  12-29-16
  

  Pearl Harbor Historian: Reconciliation almost came 50 years earlier

  It was John F. Kennedy who had a vision for the first real act of reconciliation with Japan.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-26-16
  

  Abe’s Pearl Harbor Visit Isn’t a First, but It Can Still Be a Milestone

  It now appears that the Japanese prime minister is the fourth to visit, and that one of the previous three includes Nobusuke Kishi, his grandfather.

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• SOURCE: Press Release
  12-15-16
  

  Historians win bid to unseal grand jury transcripts from historic 1942 leak investigation of the Chicago Tribune

  The case involves the paper’s report that the US naval victory at Midway 6 months after Pearl Harbor was won by cracking Japan’s secret naval code.

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• 12-6-16
  

  Pearl Harbor Wasn’t the Only Attack that Week that Changed History

  by Matthew Levey

  Between December 5-11, the war, which had previously been two distinct regional wars, exploded into global war that would consume the planet for another four years. 

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• 12-5-16
  

  Before FDR Gave His Pearl Harbor Speech, Eleanor Gave Hers

  by Greg Sumner

  What she said is especially relevant now.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  12-1-16
  

  Remembering Pearl Harbor Brings ‘Date Which Will Live in Infamy’ to Virtual Reality

  Experience the day through the eyes of one survivor.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11-29-16
  

  'Welcome home, Uncle Ed.' The remains of this Pearl Harbor sailor — and many others — are finally coming home

  Navy Fireman 3rd Class Edwin Hopkins died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was buried as an unknown serviceman in Hawaii until his body was recently identified in a DNA test.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-14-15
  

  Shinzo Abe Echoes Japan’s Past World War II Apologies but Adds None

  in a potentially contentious break with previous expressions of contrition by Japanese leaders, he did not offer a new apology of his own.

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• SOURCE: Stars and Stripes
  12-9-14
  

  Historian seeks to clear embassy of Pearl Harbor 'sneak attack' infamy

  Takeo Iguchi, a professor emeritus at Shobi University, has devoted his research to reversing a prevalent view in Japan that the embassy was to blame. It was the military.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4-6-14
  

  How FDR prepared for a war he thought might be inevitable

  by David Kaiser

  "From Monday, December 1, through Thursday, December 4, new Magic intercepts conveyed Tokyo’s instructions to its diplomatic representatives in London, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Washington, and various Chinese cities to destroy their codes and other publications."

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• 10-28-13
  

  The New York Times recycles John Ford Pearl Harbor footage

  by David Austin Walsh

  Historian Andrew J. Bacevich calls out the Times for using "faked" footage.

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• SOURCE: National Post
  9-20-13
  

  Paper crane folded by Hiroshima girl who died of leukemia to go on display at Pearl Harbor

  Sadako Sasaki’s family donated the origami crane to promote peace and overcome the tragedies of the past.

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• SOURCE: Japan Daily Press
  9-4-13
  

  Historians seek unrecovered Japanese soldiers from Pearl Harbor attack

  What happened to the 29 Japanese airmen and 4 sailors whose remains were never recovered?

• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  4-22-13
  

  Yamamoto's unsettled legacy

  NAGAOKA, Japan – Seven decades after the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in an aerial ambush in the South Pacific, Japan is still struggling with how to remember the charismatic naval commander who opposed war with the United States, but nonetheless planned the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor.With tensions once again growing in East Asia and public acceptance of Japan’s military forces beginning to rise, Japan could be ready for a more open discussion of the war era – and its leaders.“They don’t teach about this period in high schools, so people under 50 years old don’t know much about it. But because of the Senkaku problem, people are beginning to get interested,” said Yukoh Watanabe, an amateur naval historian who attended a private memorial service in Yamamoto’s hometown last week....