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(World War II) Archive of original carbon typescript submissions by war correspondents during the first 6 months of the U.S. involvement in World War II in the Pacific, starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor Place Published: Hawaii Date Published: 1941-1942 Description: 25 leaves, thin tissue typing paper, loose. Amazing reports from three Associated Press correspondents in the Pacific theatre of war. Labeled variously Day Cable Two, Night Cable One, Day Cable Four, etc., the files bring an immediacy to the events that were shaping the world. Eugene Burns. 8 leaves, reporting on the initial attack on Pearl Harbor and immediate aftermath: "xxx surprise attack. The first raiders flew over at 7:55 a.m. Sunday and were followed by other waves... Honoluluans, accustomed to army and navy maneuvers, thought it was another defense practice when they were awakened by explosions… Blackouts were instituted for an indefinite period with heavy penalties for their violation. The Japanese consul was taken into custody while he was burning records…" Tom Yarborough. 8 leaves. Reporting on the battle for Wake Island: "Honolulu – First add wake island… Not until Dec. 22 in its final dispatch did the final outnumbered and overwhelmed garrison of less than 400 marines admit defeat… Honolulu – seventh add Wake Island defense… The first attack on the eighth was made by between 20 and 30 twin-engined bombers, apparently of medium class…" Walter B. Clausen. 9 leaves. Reporting on the Battle of Midway: "Pearl Harbor – first add midway eyewitness… From a 25 year old torpedo plane pilot of the Pacific fleet came one of the most amazing eyewitness accounts of a major naval engagement in the history of sea-warfare, Admiral Nimitz disclosed. The pilot occupied what veteran naval officers termed “a fisheye view” of operations during an attack on three Japanese carriers participating in the battle of Midway. For he watched the havoc wrought when American dive bombers and torpedo planes blasted at these huge targets – observing from the surface of the sea itself while clinging to his boat-bag and covering his head with a seat." Eugene Burns was the first eyewitness to report the Dec. 7 bombing while it was still underway when, using a drug store’s telephone, he got through to AP’s San Francisco bureau on three separate calls before U.S. military authorities cut off all civilian communication between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland. He was killed in 1958 during a street mob revolt in Baghdad, Iraq. Tom Yarbough, served as Associated Press correspondent during WWII in European and Pacific theaters. Later he was the member of the Post – Dispatch news staff. Walter B. Clausen was Los Angeles Associated Press head and many years war observer in the Far East and the Pacific. He was the author of the book “Blood for the Emperor: A narrative history of the human side of the war in the Pacific.” Condition: Creasing and wrinkling, a few chips and tears, very good. Item#: 358716 Headline: Reports from WWII Pacific Theatre 1941-2