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...hours after Japan's virtually unopposed destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the enemy found Douglas MacArthur's Far East air force neatly arrayed for extermination on Clark Field in the Philippines. The only remaining major deterrent to Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia consisted of the British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse-and they were sunk three days later. Though Corregidor held out for five months, General Jonathan Wainwright's surrender-"with broken heart and head bowed in sadness but not in shame"-was the greatest capitulation in the history of U.S. arms...
...been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck of the U.S. battleship Texas in Chesapeake Bay. Three years later, his powerboat, Valiant, went down in the Gulf of Mexico, and once more Harvey escaped with his life. The sinking of the Bluebelle, insisted friends, was all that Harvey could stand...
...battle, Artist Frederic Remington cabled his desire to return: EVERYTHING is QUIET. THERE is NO TROUBLE HERE. THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Hearst's infamous response: PLEASE REMAIN. YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES AND I'LL FURNISH THE WAR. Seizing upon the still-unexplained sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor as an excuse, Hearst whipped the U.S. into a chauvinistic frenzy. And when the war that Hearst wanted finally flared, he could not resist crowing for two days on the Journal's front page: HOW DO YOU LIKE THE JOURNAL...
...Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the 33,000-ton battleship West Virginia sank in Pearl Harbor's waters, victim of half a dozen Japanese torpedoes. The attack had come so suddenly, the great ship was crippled so quickly, that 66 crewmen were caught below deck and went down with the West Virginia. Last week, 19 years after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy finally released a harrowing report on the ordeal of three sailors who were aboard the West Virginia...
Honolulu for my surveillance of the military air fields, and walked nearly every day through Pearl City where I could readily survey the airstrip on Ford Island and battleship row in Pearl Harbor." It was all quite simple: "I made many observations on underwater obstructions, tides, beach gradients, and so forth, while on swimming expeditions...