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WASHINGTON (AP) - George Larsen jumped out of bed and pulled on his jeans, thinking an earthquake was shaking Hawaii's Diamond Head lighthouse, where he worked as a Coast Guard radioman.
But it wasn't nature: War arrived that Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, as Japanese bombers swept in to attack the nearby Pearl Harbor Navy base.
Larsen ran outside to see what was happening as three torpedo planes roared overhead. He could see smoke rising from the Naval station and plumes of seawater blasted into the air.
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