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By Ben Botkin / The Bulletin
December 7, 2012
Jack Grimm was roused from bed on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, by the sound of the bombs falling and low-flying aircraft.
Grimm, a freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, was still new to the 78th Fighter Squadron at Wheeler Field, about 16 miles north of Pearl Harbor,....