(Note: The following story is true, but some of the sources are more reliable than others. I have attempted to resolve various discrepancies in detail.)
All lay quiet in the airfield and harbor below. The commander pulled back the canopy and checked his watch. 7:49 a.m. He reached for his flare gun and fired a green flare, the signal to attack. Then he told his radioman to send back to the carrier the code words, "Tora, Tora, Tora" ("Tiger, Tiger, Tiger"). Surprise was complete.
Observing the carnage below, he later wrote, "As smoke began to billow and the proud battleships, one by one, started tilting, my heart was almost ablaze with joy."
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Sources
C. Hoyt Watson, The Amazing Story of Sergeant Jacob De Shazer (Light And Life Press, 1950)
Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan: The Japanese Navy's Story (Ballantine Books, 1993 re-issue)
Gordon Prange, God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (Brassey's Commemorative Series, 1990)
Gordon Prange, et al, Miracle at Midway (Viking Press, reprint 1983)
Stanford Linzey and Dahk Knox (Editor), God Was at Midway: The Sinking of the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway (Black Forrest Book Promotions, 2nd ed. 1999)
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