Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pearl Harbor was a smashing victory-and a ghastly mistake...
...Japanese who were there, 40 years ago next Monday, Dec. 7, remember it as a day of breathtaking accomplishment and extraordinary luck. Lieut. Heijiro Abe was navigating the lead plane in a formation of Nakajima bombers over Pearl Harbor's "battleship row" when his chance came; a bomb from his plane soon tore into the bowels of the West Virginia. On the eastern edge of Oahu, at Bellows Field, Sub-Lieut. Iyozoh Fujita, flying a Zero fighter from the Japanese carrier Soryu on his first combat mission, saw his flight commander shot down by an enraged soldier furiously firing...
...that Sunday's carnage, the U.S. toll was 2,403 dead, all eight battleships in the harbor crippled or destroyed, 188 planes demolished and another 159 damaged. When Pearl Harbor survivors and military brass gather next Monday for an anniversary ceremony at the Arizona memorial, the mood will still be somber: 1,102 of the dead were entombed in the sunken hulk of the battleship over which the memorial stands...
...hindsight of history, Pearl Harbor was a disaster for Japan's imperial ambitions. The attack was both the beginning of World War II in the Pacific and the beginning of its end. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the combined Japanese fleet, who planned the Pearl Harbor operation, warned of that possibility as late as September 1941, when battle practice had already begun. "Japan cannot vanquish the United States," he told a gathering of old schoolmates. "Therefore we should not fight the United States." As Yamamoto saw it, there was only one slim chance for victory...
Campbell leaves his wife. Catherine (Saverse); four daughters. Kathryn Lesica of Franklin, Sharon Boyle of Bedford and Diane Campbell and Anne Ronaye, both of Arlington; a son, Daniel L. Campbell Jr. of Arlington; two sisters, Margaret Gibbs of Wareham and Pearl Venard of Lowell: two brothers, Joseph Campbell of California and Harold Campbell of Connecticut: and two grandchildren...