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TIL that after his crew on the USS Tangier performed dismally on a training exercise in Pearl Harbor, Captain Clifton Sprague told them "We’re not prepared. We can’t trust the Japanese. How do you know the Japanese won’t attack tomorrow?" The next day, December 7th, the Japanese attacked.

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