Show I Pearl Harbor At 30 Thirty years ago this December Sunday- the radio broke the news that the United States naval base and air fields in the vicinity had been suddenly bombed by Japanese THOUGH President Roosevelt knew such an attack was though military commanders there had been though an enlisted man on radar watch picked up the incoming and though an intelligence colonel in Washington bad concluded the attack was imminent and was struggling with superiors to warn the attack was highly The battleship fleet was Thousands were Many aircraft were BY good thes few U. S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific were not in the harbor that As it turned the car were the most vital ships in the resulting and they turned the tide in June of at six months In this the U. S. was either the nation fought or declared war on America four days after the Jap FEW AMERICANS proposed thus the nation was In that sense it was a good time to be an American-if one survived the The nation was behind its fighting the overwhelming majority of citizens sought to do their And unity achieved IN THREE and a half years the effort of unified Americans produced the world's mightiest military The lesson is the nation can overcome practically any obstacle or We can remember this profitably today-thirty years after Pearl |