LUKEWARM AT PEARL HARBOR
The morning of December 7, 1941, found 353 Japanese airplanes swarming at Pearl Harbor. Within a couple of hours, America lost eight big battleships, six major airfields, many planes on the ground and 2,400 men. That all took place in what was supposedly a surprise attack at 7:50 AM. Yet here is the so-called rest of the story: That morning at 7:00 a.m. while the Japanese war- planes were 137 miles — 50 minutes away), two U. S. soldiers on a small radar station in the Pacific scanned the screen and saw dots and dots appearing, until the whole screen was filled. These soldiers notified their youthful supervisor, a lieutenant. No other officer was around, that being a Sunday. The lieutenant thought these must be planes from California, and without another thought, said these crucial words: “Don’t worry about it.” There would have been time to scramble the planes at Pearl Harbor, prepare the battleships and shelter the men, but…
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