Ms. HARRIS: You have to always keep in mind that we're not just identifying the Pearl Harbor unknowns here at JPAC.
This kind of overconfidence can lead to disasters, such as with the Chernobyl disaster (the Ukrainian Minister of Power stated the odds of a meltdown were 1 in 10, 000 just two months before the meltdown), the Challenger (NASA estimated the odds of catastrophic failure as 1 in 100, 000), or Pearl Harbor (the American military believed that Pearl Harbor was virtually immune to attack).
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The bombs at Pearl Harbor destroyed the very idea that America could live in isolation from the plots of aggressive powers.
Mr. Ford's Field Photographic Branch, which produced Academy Award-winning documentaries for the military on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, created a film to be shown at the war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg.
And a special place of honor was a guy named John Finn, who had been present the day Pearl Harbor was bombed.
They married on December 31, 1942, just about a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II.
The annual summer movie onslaught will only build upon previous releases heavy on digital enhancements, such as Lord of the Rings and Pearl Harbor, while the latest Star Wars release, which hits screens at midnight, is nudging the entire film industry toward taking traditional film out of the movie-making process entirely and replacing it with digital formats.
It was written by Hans Zimmer, who also composed the music for Pearl Harbor, Hannibal and The Lion King.
The radar detected the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, although the military failed to react.
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He had joined the service after graduating from high school during the Great Depression and had been discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II.
Justice Stevens has courageously served his country from the moment he enlisted the day before Pearl Harbor to his long and distinguished tenure on the Supreme Court.
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For almost 50 years--from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, until the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989--the U.S. was beset by mortal enemies.
The population of the United States has more than doubled since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but the number of licensed drinking establishments has shrunk by as much as two-thirds.
The holocaust, bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the Black Sox scandal are all still historic.
For the first time since Pearl Harbor was bombed 50 years earlier, the United States faced no major threats in the world.
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And after 1938, Franklin Roosevelt decided that Hitler posed a threat to the United States, but he was unable to convince an isolationist American public to enter World War II until the Japanese solved his problem by attacking Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941.
Unfazed by maritime danger, Churchill braved the Atlantic following Pearl Harbor to support his English-speaking brethren.
Holder cited the attacks at Pearl Harbor and on Sept. 11, 2001, as examples.
The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton's army and marched across Europe.
America's first formal dog-procurement program began following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The son of a grocer, he was attending Queens College -- "the only one I could afford" -- when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
That tumultuous time between the invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor gave rise to a conflict at home that pitted isolationists against interventionists.
Ballard's latest products are a book and a TV show timed to capitalize on the frenzy of interest around the Memorial Day release of the Disney movie Pearl Harbor.
To talk about retribution and certainty is to act as if the task after Pearl Harbor was to prove which unit had attacked America and to punish that unit - rather than to defeat and replace the governments of Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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This initiative proved critical to Britain's defense in the run-up to Pearl Harbor, at which point the United States became decisively not just the Free World's armory, but its savior.
The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, was a violent shock, but only in the nature and extent of the destruction: by then, most Americans had come to believe that the country would be dragged into the global war with Fascism one way or another, though their eyes were fixed on Europe, not the Pacific.
At a time when our country was still isolationist, eventually Lend-Lease passed, proving that we had educated the country to the need to do something even before Pearl Harbor brought us into the war.
Little-known detail of the battle: The Japanese sent out five small subs that were supposed to penetrate Pearl Harbor before the air attack and join in once the planes arrived.
He reminded the cadets the surprise attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 sparked dramatic changes in the military and the September 11 attacks have done the same.
In the history books, the Second World War can appear as a series of crises and conflicts, following an inevitable course from Pearl Harbor to the coast of Normandy to the deck of the Missouri.
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