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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, the Army commemorated the day, with the same flag which had survived it. The Navy, which had suffered a great deal more, ignored the anniversary of the Japanese attack. Explained a spokesman: "We want to forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion in Summit, N.J. She started as secretary to Louis Keller, the Register's founder, who hired her because "she could spell and get yacht names right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Five Years After | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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