Hate to break it to you but you're wrong on Pearl Harbor. Almost two days prior, a Japanese fighter plane engaged a US surveillance plane just south of the Aleutian Islands. The Japanese responded to the threat of the US spy-plane discovering General Yamamoto's elusive carrier fleet as it crossed the Pacific undetected. The US plane was shot down, and the Japanese fleet was not discovered. News of the US plane going down was not learned until after Pearl Harbor and the investigative inquiries that followed. So despite what you read, Japanese forces defending their fleet inflicted the first casualties in the Pacific Theatre in the war between Japan and the US.
-Rudey
--Bringing History lessons to the left-wing since 2002.
