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...total radio silence. No one talked. I admit I had some doubt. I wondered what happened to the first group. Would they succeed or would the Americans come after them? A Morse code signal came in from the first wave: "Ready to attack." A few seconds later, we heard, "Tora, tora, tora." Surprise attack. But I could see 200 to 300 bombs exploding on the ground. I immediately thought the first group must be under counterattack from the Americans...
There have been a dozen previous American films (and three Japanese) that have significantly dealt with the attack. Only one, 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!, sought to be painstakingly faithful to the facts--no love story add-on--and for this it paid dearly, and is remembered as one of the great big-budget turkeys of all time. Pearl Harbor, banking on a different fate, is Hollywood, not history, at heart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is good to set the record straight on a few things before they become part of the accepted story...
...Clever's throw buried the 13-year old Heptagonal meet record of 70.92 meters. Had Princeton's Tora Harris not delivered the second-best performance in the nation in the high jump at 2.27 meters the next day, Clever might well have been the meet's most outstanding performer...