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A reluctant enemy

By BY IAN W. TOLL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

One bright Hawaiian Sunday morning 70 years ago last week, hundreds of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor and laid waste to the United States Pacific Fleet. The American people boiled over in righteous fury, and America plunged into World War II. The “date which will live in infamy” was the real turning point of the war, which had been raging for more than two years, and it opened ...

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  • Headline: A reluctant enemy
  • Publication: Perspective, Pages 71 on 12/11/2011
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