[Rob Romero]

Stephan,
The answer to this question might surprise you. I have conducted over a decades worth of research/writing on the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Over several years, I spent about a month over at the National Archives, in College ParkMd. photocopying material. I crossed the Pacific to do research at the National Defense Agency in Japan, where I discovered documents indicationg among other things that Admiral Nagumo had information that carrier Enterprise was in the vicinity of Oahu and inferentially much in need of fuel by the evening of December 7th. I spent several weeks with Dan Martinez at the Arizona Memorial on Oahu. I inteviewed/tape recorded interviews with over 100 surivors of the attack, including a number of notables (i.e., Kenneth Taylor –who claimed to have shot down 4 attackers in his P-40, Iyozo Fujita –Zero fighter pilot). And much, much more.
And what has become of this research –well a lot of the various texts I have worked on are on my hard drive, unfinished, but many of the documents I have collected remain underutilized, collecting dust and have not been looked at in years. In short, I have accomplished more on the internet in 6 years (much of it photographic research), then I did ‘conventially’ in 15 and have become dedicated to the premise that the www (still in its infancy) is the future, and this is the domain which I will remain –no travel –no archive restrictions/personalities to deal with –no weeks of searching blind alleys –NO TRANSCRIBING!

Thanks,

Rob Romero