![]() Despite being first published in 1957, it remains the best narrative of the battle ever written. In honor of that milestone, and with the expectation of the release of fresh volumes, I reread Walter Lord’s classic Day of Infamy. We are fast approaching the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the (in)famous Japanese air raid that caught the American fleet at anchor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. At the big new consolidated barracks, Staff Sergeant Charles Judd lay in bed, reading an article debunking Japanese air power in the September issue of Aviation magazine." Private Mark Layton squeezed under the 7:45 breakfast deadline, but most of the men didn't even try. Nurse Monica Conter - in between dates with Lieutenant Benning - took pules and temperatures at the new base hospital. Captain Levi Erdmann mulled over the base tennis tournament. ![]() Sergeant Robert Hey began dressing for a rifle match with Captain J.
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