People should think things over and realize how serious the situation is.” I do not think it is a good thing to whip up propaganda to encourage the nation. The fact that we have succeeded so easily has pleased people. The fact that we have had a small success at Pearl Harbor is nothing. Potter’s Admiral of the Pacific and John Pritchard, Guy Wint and Peter Calvocoressi’s Second World War, make reference to a letter by Yamamoto to a fellow admiral in which he said, “This war will give us much trouble in the future. Several books on World War II, including J.D. Furthermore, I can find no evidence that he made or wrote that statement. “As far as I’m concerned,” he says, “Yamamoto never had a diary. Goldstein contends that the Yamamoto quote came neither from a diary nor a letter. Goldstein also was co-author with Prange on two definitive books on the attack: At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. Goldstein, author or co-author of 21 historical works, including six dealing with the attack on Pearl Harbor. But Williams no longer has it and “has no idea where it is.”Ī strong argument against the authenticity of the quote comes from University of Pittsburgh history professor Donald M. Producer Williams, meanwhile, says the quote came “from a letter written by Yamamoto to a fellow officer several months after the attack on Pearl Harbor while Yamamoto was conducting an inspection of Japanese forces in the Pacific.” Williams says the letter was obtained by screenwriter Larry Forrester from a Japanese military officer while Forrester was doing pre-production research in Japan. Fleischer says Prange and a staff of a dozen people compiled volumes of material for the movie. Prange, who died in 1980, was a University of Maryland history professor hired by the filmmakers to research events leading up to Pearl Harbor. Fleischer says he never actually saw the diary but assumes that historian Gordon W.
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