European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse In Kattom tha Arizona Fella tha any along lira a a Japan aaa Plana in Cha Duma. Second Llau Tanana Hannath Taylor Latt and Gorga Wales Wara among tha tint . Photo in tha air Attar tha attack Bagan. Thaya hoedown Cavan Japan aaa a Anaa Bataan Tham. Hull just before the japanese peace negotiators arrived with their message. The Mountaineer Diplomat from Tennessee dealt with them with icy fury. Quot scoundrels piss ants Quot he muttered As they bowed out with no one to shake their hands. News of the attack was an unforgettable Thunderclap to millions of americans. America first isolationists became instant patriots. One of the Tew japanese to oppose the attack adm. Tak Jirou onishi predicted the ambush raid on Pearl Harbor would make americans Quot insanely adm. Husband e. Kummal waa Ratt Avad of command of tha . Pacific Flaat 10 Daya Attar tha attack on part Harbor. Many americans believe the first flashes from Oahu. At Pendleton army air base in Oregon pfc. Ross Sheldon was a Doubter until someone told him civilians downtown were standing servicemen free drinks. Quot that clinches it Quot he said. A second was struck another body blow from 0915 to 0945. Of the 92 . Warships in port a fortuitously none of the Pacific fleets three carriers was there a 18 were sunk or heavily damaged including five battleships 188 planes were destroyed 2,403 military personnel and civilians killed. Among Thorn were victims of trigger Happy sentries who shot at anything Hal moved in fear of imminent invasion. One civilian was shot dead reaching through a Fence to retrieve his hat that had blown off. The last flier Back to the carriers was cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida the attack Leader. He and others pleaded with adm. Chuichi Nagumo commander of Kido Bulai to press further attacks particularly on the untouched Oil depots without which the surviving . Warships would have been useless Nagumo always lukewarm about the High risk plan was Adamant and turned homeward. Back in Japan adm. Isoroku Yamamoto had been monitoring the Progress of his brainchild. An apostle of air Power he devised the attack to cripple the . Fleet and protect Japan s flank while it seized the Oil and rubber of Malaya and the dutch East indies. A Harvard graduate who knew America s potential strength first hand Yamamoto had no illusions about the outcome of a War with an Industrial colossus but he was a lifelong Gambler who also saw More to win in honorable defeat than in survival under the supposed domination of the United states his pills Felt the same Way they flew to Pearl Harbor without parachutes a grieving More in death in Honor of emperor Hirohito than survival via cords and Woven fabric. Yamamoto called Nagumo s timidity Quot second class thinking Quot in terms of his passion for Bridge he described the attack results As Quot a Small slam barely made Quot inexplicable then and now was the destruction of Gen Douglas Macarthur philippine air Force ten hours after Pearl Harbor the planes were still spotted As neatly As Bowling pins at Clark Field in perfect target formation for japanese attackers Quot what Tehell roared air Force commander it. Gen. Henry h. Quot Hap Quot Arnold when he Learned of this second Pearl Harbor the Moon Rose Over the carnage of the real Pearl Harbor after Midnight that sunday. Those still up saw a lunar Rainbow through the smoke of the Days Battle by ancient hawaiian tradition it signalled approaching Victory it did indeed in time adm. Onishi had been dead right. Pearl Harbor As perhaps nothing else could have made americans fighting mad. All of them saturday Dacambra 7,1991 tha Start and strip a 3
