Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs
and outside quotations. Some have been repositioned to improve the
appearance of pages in eBook format.
The Frontispiece originally was printed across two facing pages, so
part of the photograph was lost in the binding. In this eBook, the two
parts of that photograph have been combined into one image, with a
vertical white gap indicating the lost area. The complete photograph
used by the original book may be found by searching the Internet for
images of “ford island pearl harbor attack”, but this eBook only used
what was in the original book.
Ship identifications in the original book sometimes were printed with a
hyphen (BB-43) and sometimes with a space (BB 43). In this eBook, they
always are printed with a hyphen.
Page 32: The text on this page was superimposed on a background image
that was too faint be reproduced in this eBook. The caption of that
image is:
Photo of USS _Arizona_ Memorial, 1991, by Maj Charles D. Melson,
USMC (Ret)