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  • US pilot who dismissed Pearl Harbor reports dies

    02/25/2010 1:24:17 PM PST · by JoeProBono · 35 replies · 1,122+ views
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    SAN DIEGO (AP) -- An American pilot who dismissed initial reports of what turned out to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died at age 96. Kermit Tyler was the Army Air Forces' first lieutenant on temporary duty at Ft. Shafter's radar information center in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, when two privates reporting seeing an unusually large blip on their radar screen, indicating a large number of aircraft about 132 miles away and fast approaching. "Don't worry about it," Tyler famously replied, thinking it was a flight of U.S. B-17 bombers that was due in from the...