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  • George Elliott, who warned of planes nearing Pearl Harbor, dead at 85

    12/23/2003 11:22:04 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 6 replies · 504+ views
    Associated Press | December 24, 2003
    PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - George E. Elliott Jr., whose unheeded warning about aircraft approaching Pearl Harbor was depicted in history books and movies like "Tora, Tora, Tora," has died. He was 85. Elliot died Saturday of complications from a stroke, his family said. The former Army radar operator detected the incoming Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941; he issued a warning, which was brushed aside. Nearly an hour later, the enemy planes reached the Navy fleet in the harbor. A 50-year anniversary story by The Associated Press told how Elliott and another private, Joseph L. Lockard, had been on...