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After Mitsuo Fuchida<\/a> commanded the air attack on Pearl Harbor, he drew a map<\/a> to report on the damage his planes inflicted on the U.S. ships. That map, held by the Library of Congress, is the subject of an interactive story map<\/a>\u00a0from the Library: \u201cThis is the story of how Fuchida made the map, the history surrounding it, and an opportunity for the reader to interactively explore the map’s contents.\u201d [Maps Mania<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Mitsuo Fuchida commanded the air attack on Pearl Harbor, he drew a map to report on the damage his planes inflicted on the U.S. ships. 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