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There may, or may not, be a thread about this. I don't think so. As you're
well aware, there was an experimental radar installation on Diamond Head,
manned by two privates. Their names escape me. The radar installation was
linked to a station by field telephone. The privates noticed the first wave of
the attacking Japanese planes just as they dipped below Diamond Head. The first private reported it. The only person on duty that morning was a lieutenant. The private said that he'd just spotted an unusual blip on the radar. He was dismissed. Then a minute or later, the second private reported
another suspicious blip. The lieutenant told them to disregard it that it was just a flight of B-17s flying in from the mainland. It had been dramatized in
movies like Air Force, (1943), Tora! Tora! Tora!, (1970), and most recently, Pearl Harbor, (2001). What if the warnings from the Diamond Head radar operators had been heeded?
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