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John Maino conveys a sense of what was happening in the Green Bay area in the hours and days before the country was drawn into the most destructive war in world history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy talking to as many people from that era as possible and digging through as much local research as was available, one thing became abundantly clear: on December 6th, 1941, the Chicago Bears were a bigger concern around town than the Japanese Navy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first personal narrative of the book chronicles the experience of U.S. Navy Gunner's Mate Firman Balza of Green Bay. 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