When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (1942)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Army Air Force Intelligence. The American military urgently needed people steeped in the German language, politics, and geography and so in the early summer of 1942, Eric was shipped to Florida for an officer-training course. Although the twelve hundred future officers were housed in Palm Beach hotels, the experience was anything but luxurious, since Florida suffered through its hottest summer in thirty years.
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