Man who notified world of Pearl Harbor attack dies

The Associated Press 1/18/2011

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ed Chlapowski, the man who notified the world that Pearl Harbor was being bombed by the Japanese, has died at 88.

The former Navy radio man’s family said he died Sunday at his home in Billings a few weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.

In 2009, Chlapowski […]

Reposted/updated…December 7th, 1941 — 'a date which will live in infamy…'

7 December 2010

CAJ note: This article is one that we posted last year to honor the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. We ask our readers to reflect for a moment on the loss of life America incurred on that day.

Today’s photograph at the search engine Bing is a beautiful aerial photograph […]

“…December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy…”

In the United States the news first broke at 2:26 p.m. EST, December 7, 1941, in a series of radio bulletins.

From Wikipedia:

This is an address given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., on December 8, 1941, in response to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

On this day, […]

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