The compilation of the historical record as it appears in the following pages was begun on December 7, 1941 and was finished three years, eight months, and seven days later on August 14, 1945. As the bombs were falling on Pearl Harbor and as he (I) contemplated the dramatic impact of that -Day of Infamy- on the life of every human being, the author decided that it would be exceedingly interesting and perhaps valuable from an historical viewpoint, to record the course of the war as it unfolded chronologically in the life of one American citizen. Accordingly, he (I) began compiling a daily...