Transcriber’s Notes
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On some eReaders, stretching and/or double-tapping an image will magnify it and show more detail, including better readability of small print.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. Some have been repositioned to improve the appearance of pages in eBook format.
The Frontispiece originally was printed across two facing pages, so part of the photograph was lost in the binding. In this eBook, the two parts of that photograph have been combined into one image, with a vertical white gap indicating the lost area. The complete photograph used by the original book may be found by searching the Internet for images of “ford island pearl harbor attack”, but this eBook only used what was in the original book.
Ship identifications in the original book sometimes were printed with a hyphen (BB-43) and sometimes with a space (BB 43). In this eBook, they always are printed with a hyphen.
Page 32: The text on this page was superimposed on a background image that was too faint be reproduced in this eBook. The caption of that image is:
Photo of USS Arizona Memorial, 1991, by Maj Charles D. Melson, USMC (Ret)