"7 Things You Might Not Know After Pearl Harbor" Topic
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| Tango01 | 06 May 2017 10:41 p.m. PST |
"It was still a peaceful morning on Dec. 7, 1941 when the news came in from across the Pacific that Japanese aircraft had bombed Pearl Harbor. On the West Coast, the naïve complacency that "it can't happen here" abruptly rotated to the frenzied fear that "it can happen here, and it can happen at any moment!" In his new book, "Panic on the Pacific: How America Prepared for a West Coast Invasion", noted historian and author Bill Yenne returns to the dark and fearful early months of World War II to examine the reaction of the people, the politicians, and the military to what was genuinely perceived as an immediate threat of a full-scale Japanese invasion…"
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| langobard | 07 May 2017 4:26 a.m. PST |
I always thought the paranoia of this time and place was well captured by Spielburgs "1941". |
| Tango01 | 07 May 2017 9:40 p.m. PST |
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