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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 77
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      A Couple Of Strange Pearl Harbor Ech  [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:02:09 -0500
    From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A Couple Of Strange Pearl Harbor Echoes, One OTR
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        Most of those who know me are aware that my parents, my sister, and I
    survived the Pearl Harbor attack.  Long after the event, though, there were
    a couple of interesting items with a Pearl Harbor connection. Through the
    1940s, my absolutely favorite show was an adventure serial,  Captain
    Midnight.  The title character of the show was an aviator  who headed a
    (fictional) Government organization that contended against  espionage,
    sabotage, and crimes that endangered national security.  The  show went off
    the air in 1949, but I never forgot it. In the 1970s, I was inspired to write
    a book that would preserve the  program's stories.  To do this, I contacted
    the sponsor of the program, and  I was granted access to the scripts of the
    shows. I took copious audio notes. Within the scripts was a 1941 story that
    was broadcast well before 7  December.  Captain Midnight and his crew were
    flying over Japanese-occupied  China when their aircraft was shot down by
    agents of an international criminal,  The Barracuda, who had connections with
    Japan.  Two of the crewmembers were  captured by The Barracuda's forces, and
    Captain Midnight found allies and  conducted a raid to recover the captives.
    In the successful raid, he found in a secret compartment in The Barracuda's
    office, plans for an attack on Pearl Harbor!  This was well before the
    actual attack. When I read that, I got quite a chill.  (The story is
    recounted in my  book,
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    published in 2000. Before I started writing my first draft of the book,
    though, I figured that  the only way I could write it correctly would be to
    understand a pilot's  perspective.  I discovered that I enjoyed flying
    sufficiently that I  eventually bought an airplane, which I happily flew
    until I got married. When I acquired my airplane, a Piper PA28-151, my
    friends in Digital's  Public Relations department threw me a party at
    lunchtime to celebrate. The dessert of the meal was a cake, on the top of
    which was a small  yellow-colored plastic airplane.  It was a tiny replica of
    a low-wing  monoplane, and was nestled in the cake's icing. The airplane
    looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place it. After the party, I cleaned
    off the little airplane and examined it  closely.  It was a replica of the
    Mitsubishi A6 fighter, known to US  service people as the Zero, one of the
    aircraft that participated in the Pearl  Harbor attack. I don't believe
    anyone in the department knew that I was  present during the attack.   Steve

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