Word: tora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the nation's most ignominious military disaster since the burning of the White House in 1814, hired the man who planned it all to lend his 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...
...Tora! Tora! Tora! demonstrates, the infamy was double-edged. Late in 1940, American cryptographers cracked the Japanese code and predicted war-to deaf ears. An hour before the bombing, the Japanese raiders were detected as blips on a primitive radar screen-and were dismissed by American officers as "our B-17s." As a compound tragedy of omission and commission, the events leading down to Dec. 7 could provide the grossest scenarists with a wide-screen epic. Those, apparently, are the ones 20th Century-Fox hired...