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pages, including one just completed with a great deal of trouble. At about
12:30, the code room finally gave him the 14th part of the ultimatum,
but Okumura was nowhere near finished with the first 13. Nomura kept
poking his head in the door to hurry him on. A few minutes after one,
when it was evident that the document would not be finished for some
time, the Japanese called Hull to request a postponement to 1:45, saying
that the document they wished to present was not yet ready. Hull
acquiesced.
At almost exactly the time that the call to Hull was being placed,
Commander Fuchida and his flight of 51 dive bombers, 49 high-level
bombers, 40 torpedo planes, and 43 fighters arrived over Pearl Harbor.
He fired a "black dragon" from his signal pistol to indicate that the
squadrons should deploy in the assault pattern for complete surprise.
Nine minutes later, he wirelessed the message "To, to, to"—the first
syllable of the Japanese word for "Charge!" and the signal to attack. As
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