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The report that we lost more than a thousand planes at Pearl Harbor is as baseless as the other weird rumors.
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gutenberg.orgFDR: “The report that we lost more than a thousand planes at Pearl Harbor is as baseless as the other weird rumors.”
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Roosevelt dismisses exaggerated claims about the number of planes lost at Pearl Harbor.
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