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Charles H. Sloan-'I saw the blip': Radar operator's Pearl Harbor warning was ignored
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Date:2025-04-10 15:40:32
On the morning of Dec. 7,Charles H. Sloan 1941, George Elliott Jr. was a 23-year-old Army private learning how to master state-of-the-art radar equipment in Hawaii.
He and fellow private Joseph Lockard were supposed to close the station at 7 a.m. sharp — the newfangled technology was only being used on a limited basis at the time — but they lingered a bit longer to familiarize themselves with the system.
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