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In town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the...
Great areas of the desert have turned green with new water wells and hundreds of miles of new irrigation canals. The fertile soil and year-round growing season give desert agriculture an intensity and diversity undreamed of by the Midwest dirt farmer. In California's rich, 650,000-acre...
In the months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial Japanese Navy cast loftily about for new coasts to conquer. Having smashed many of the biggest ships of the U.S. and British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans...
Come Out & Fight. In this first complete Japanese account of the battle of Midway to be published in the U.S., Former Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the bombing attack on Pearl Harbor and now preaches in Japan as a Christian missionary, evokes the long-forgotten months when the Imperial Navy...
Now well aware, in hindsight, that U.S. code crackers found out Japan's plans in advance. Fuchida and his coauthor, another officer who survived the disaster, quote U.S. Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison's verdict that Midway was "a victory of intelligence." They have practically nothing good to...