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Pearl Harbor episode 4: The day of the attack

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The Japanese Torpedo Plane Flew Overhead

When the air raid drill went a lot of the americans thought it was just a routine. It was a sunday morning drill to catch them unawares, though a little bit sleepy. That assumption was shattered by the explosion of a torpedo that flooded the forward engine room of a light cruiser, a raley. So there's now great confusion. Sailors aren't sure if it's a drill, if it's an attack. And then explosions begin to tell them this isn't a a drill. There was very little that they could do. The aircraft men on the ground that some of them were opening fire with machine guns and rifles,. Just doing whatever they could to suppose to this

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