“So everyone is about 17 or 18 who’s story is told there.” 3. “The officers of the Navy all lived in houses and the junior people were the ones on the boats, so pretty much all of the people who died in the direct line of the attack were very junior people,” Nelson said.
Photo credit Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Hubenthal 7, 2015, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. military veterans attend the 74th National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Commemoration Dec. I asked Nelson to share some of what he learned white writing the book. Nelson’s exhaustive research includes behind-the-scenes accounts from Japan, 200 recent oral histories and memoirs from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Nelson, who has written about the moon landing, the Doolittle Raid, Thomas Paine and the Atomic Age in previous works, set out to paint a clearer picture of Pearl Harbor. His book, “Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness,” is based on five years of research and original interviews with remaining survivors. I asked historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Nelson to share some lesser-known stories about the Pearl Harbor attack. But there were also internal Japanese disagreements about warning America, a mysterious board game and at least one unlikely friendship spawned 50 years after the bombs dropped. The Pearl Harbor attack is known for its overwhelming surprise, spectacular explosions and countless heroic acts.
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