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    PEARL I HARBOR FLY FOR VENGEANCE

    Sep 01, 2021 4 minutes
    BY LT. CLARENCE E. DICKINSON, USN
    in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes

    You would damn well remember Pearl Harbor if you had seen the great naval base ablaze as we of Scouting Squadron 6 saw it from the air, skimming in ahead of our homeward-bound carrier. The shock was especially heavy for us because this was our first knowledge that the Japs had attacked on that morning of December 7. We came upon it stone cold, each of us looking forward to a long leave that was due him.

    Bad weather delayed us and we were getting home [from Wake Island] on Sunday instead of on Saturday, as planned. While the engines were being warmed up on the flight deck early on Sunday morning, my rear-seat gunner and radioman,

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