Unnamed Japanese Aviator
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2999
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Unnamed Japanese Aviator
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Unnamed Japanese Aviator
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Biography:
Several thousand Japanese sailors and aviators participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor that provoked the U.S. to declare war, but this entry reflects the unusual way Charles Mallison describes the attack in "Knight's Gambit": "a Jap dropped a bomb on another American" (254).