Pratt man seeks probe into Yamamoto shootdown credit
Pratt banker and WWII veteran George Chandler urges the Air Force to correct the record on the Yamamoto mission. He contends two Japanese bombers were in the formation and that Lanphier could not have shot down Yamamoto's plane, while Air Force historian Dr. Richard Kohn maintains no change. Chandler plans a Victory Board hearing with Sen. Bob Dole's help as aging participants weigh in.
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Oil as linchpin of Japanese war strategy linked to Pearl Harbor
Washington AP reports Daniel Yergin in The Prize argues oil was the central driver of Japan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. He links oil to Japan's Asia campaigns, Hawaii plan, and fears of US oil cuts, noting 80 percent of Japan's oil then came from the United States and Roosevelt's July 1941 cutoff intensified aggression.
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