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I Survived The Attack Of Pearl Harbor Essay

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The book I Survived The Attack of Pearl Harbor was a great book, but here’s the big question; Is it accurate? Well, thats pretty much what this whole essay is about. But that’s not until the third paragraph, so why don’t you make yourself comfortable will I get to that. This book brings to life many aspects of this attack that I have never thought of. What would it have been like to see the battleships blow up? What would it be like to see all of that destruction? That is what this is all about

Before I go into the credibility of this book, I think you have to hear it first. To summarize, this is the story; Danny and his mother lived in New York city with his best friend, Finn. Everything was fine, until that day two months ago. The two boys were climbing up an old fire escape when it gave way under Finn. He fell to the ground and had to go to the hospital. This is what finally pushed Danny’s mom to move them both to Hawaii. Danny hated it here and wanted more than anything to go back to New York. He was planning to stowaway on the ship Carmella, which was the next ship leaving port for San Francisco. But his plans, and his world, were ripped in two when Japanese planes attacked the harbor. He witnessed one of the many mighty battleships get blown apart, and was chased down by a Mitsubishi Zero …show more content…

The book about the day that will live in infamy did get many things right, including the damage control on all of the ships. However, I do doubt that a fighter whose mission is to sink ships would peel away from his squadron to attack a lone person. But the battleship Arizona really was sunk, like all of the other ships in the harbor. Like I said at the beginning, this book brought to life some aspects I never looked at before. Not only that, it had all of these aspects correct. There were actually two waves of bombers and fighters that attacked the harbor, and there is a Hickam air force base in on the east side of Pearl

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