Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. William Raymond Manchester (April 1 1922 – June 1 2004) was an American author biographer and historian notable as the bestselling author of 18 books that have been translated into over 20 languages.