Pearl Harbor
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“The U.S. is absolutely vulnerable to a Pearl Harbor in space,” this person told me.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Setting aside Pearl Harbor, any real threat to the “homeland” was mostly an abstraction in itself.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
A headlong drive for efficiency cut the average time needed to assemble a “Liberty Ship” freighter from around eight months shortly after Pearl Harbor to barely one month by 1945.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The losses inflicted on the U.S. fleet in 1941 at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, in whose navy Mahan was required reading, were soon replaced, and then some.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Papa already knew the car he’d put money on before Pearl Harbor had been repossessed.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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