Word: genda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expertise, and even enlisted the U.S. Defense Department's help in filming it. Then, to launch their $25 million epic, Tora! Torn! Tora!, a recapitulation of Pearl Harbor (see CINEMA), the producers held a premiere last week in Washington. Among the guests of honor: Technical Adviser Minoru Genda, the retired Japanese general who planned the attack, and Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who led it. Even at a remove of nearly 30 years, there seemed an almost stupefying broadmindedness in celebrating Pearl Harbor in the nation's capital...