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unusual facts about Pearl Harbor attack



John Gates

The week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Gates enlisted in the American armed forces.

Vincent F. Harrington

Harrington was commissioned in the United States Army Air Corps after the Pearl Harbor attack, resigned from Congress when President Franklin D. Roosevelt disallowed members of Congress from serving in the military at the same time, and died of natural causes while on active duty in England.


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Minoru Genda

Alternative-history writer Harry Turtledove used Genda as the primary Japanese protagonist in his fictional account of an invasion of Oahu following the Pearl Harbor attack in his books Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning.