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...already visited Yankee Stadium. He traveled to New York City in October to watch a play-off game against the Red Sox, buying three-year-old daughter Haruna a miniature Yankees bat and a pinstripes-clad panda. "The Yankees were so big," he says, "that they made the field look small...
...about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left to die of exposure in freezing winter temperatures, had apparently been purged for displaying "bourgeois symptoms...
During the early, tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
...Haruna story has long since been set straight, although the legend persists. Actually, the late Colin Kelly bombed a ship from 20,000 feet, was killed when his plane was attacked and set afire by Zeros. Surviving crew members thought the ship was the Haruna, which was not permanently disabled until last July...
...Land-based Army & Navy planes made their first coordinated attack with the flyers of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, capping a week of unprecedented assault on the remnant of what was once the Imperial Japanese Navy. Among the Japanese casualties: the battleships Haruna (and no mistake, this time), Hyuga, Na gato...