Pearl Harbor
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After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the escape route to America closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The U.S. is absolutely vulnerable to a Pearl Harbor in space,” this person told me.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Raymond Lewis was in the ninth grade in Clarksdale, Miss., when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
She was halfway through the assignment when Japanese fighter pilots bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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