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Fuchida woke at 5 a.m. As he told American military historian Gordon Prange, he put on red underwear and a red shirt so that if he was wounded, his men would not be distracted by the sight of his blood. At breakfast, one of his lieutenants said, "Honolulu sleeps...
...Honolulu radio plays soft music. Everything is fine...
Bratton rushed the message to the War Department signal center, where Marshall's scrawl had to be retyped for legibility. The message went to several points within a few minutes, but because of atmospheric difficulties, the copy for Hawaii went by commercial wireless. It reached Honolulu at 7:33 a.m. and ended in a pigeon hole, awaiting a motorcycle messenger to deliver...
Fuchida's bombers had to fly blind over dense banks of clouds, so they homed on the Honolulu commercial radio station KGMB. Over his receiver, Fuchida heard soothing music, then a weather report: "Partly cloudy . . . over the mountains. Cloud base at 3,500 ft. Visibility good." Fuchida flew...
...separate studies of 130,000 and 6,000 people, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Stanford and Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu found that people infected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were three to six times as likely to develop stomach cancer over a 20-year period as those who were not infected. "This is not just a little risk we're talking about," says Stanford's Julie Parsonnet, though she points out that not everyone infected with the bacterium develops cancer. Indeed, the bug, which may enter the body through dirty water or human contact...