Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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."
In terms of casualties and destruction, this was one of the most one-sided battles in history. The U.S. lost 2,433 killed (about half of them on the Arizona) and 1,178 wounded. The Japanese, who had expected to sacrifice as much as one-third of their force, lost...
Despite Doolittle's feat, the Japanese victories throughout the South Pacific could now be halted and reversed only by the U.S. Navy, and the Navy had been badly wounded. On top of the losses at Pearl Harbor, it had to abandon its base at Cavite, outside Manila, and it lost...
At about dusk we saw four planes flying low, coming up the channel toward the harbor. Almost every antiaircraft gun in the Navy Yard started firing at them. The sad part is, they turned out to be U.S. Navy planes from the carrier Enterprise. Three were shot down, and the...
However, Gomes says that he felt morally obligated to come forward because "firstly, religion was used in such a strident and perverse way to orchestrate an attack against homosexuality, and, secondly, there were so many students who were hurt by this, grievously wounded. I would hope that I would have...