Professor Prange teaching his history class at the University of Maryland in 1964
Gordon William Prange (/præŋ/;[1] July 16, 1910 – May 15, 1980) was the author of several World War II historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Prange was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years (1942–1951) of military service in the United States Navy during World War II, and in the postwar military occupation of Japan, when he was the Chief Historian on General Douglas MacArthur's staff.[2] It was during this time that Prange collected material from and interviewed many Japanese military officers, enlisted men, and civilians, with the information later being used in the writing of his books. Several became New York Times bestsellers, including At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Miracle at Midway.
Prange's 1963 Tora! Tora! Tora!, published in the November and December issues of Reader's Digest, and later expanded into At Dawn We Slept, portrayed the attack on Pearl Harbor, and is credited as the basis for the screenplay of the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, which was produced in 1970, while Prange took a leave of absence from the University of Maryland to serve as the technical consultant during its filming. His extensive research into the attack on Pearl Harbor was the subject of a Public Broadcasting Service television program in 2000, Prange and Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession, and was acclaimed "a definitive book on the event" by The Washington Post.[3]
Prange was a popular lecturer at the University of Maryland. The Terrapin, the university's yearbook, said of his World War I and World War II history classes: "Students flock to his class and sit enraptured as he animates the pages of twentieth century European history through his goosesteps, 'Sieg Heils', 'Achtungs', machine gun retorts and frantic gestures".[4]
^"The Gordon W. Prange Collection: Saving Hidden History, Japan 1945-1949". Gordon W. Prange Collection. February 19, 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
^"Press Release: February 20, 2002 Exhibit of UM Prange Materials to Open at Hornbake Library" (Press release). University of Maryland Libraries. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
^"What to Watch". The Washington Post. December 3, 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
^Terrapin 1964. College Park, Md.: University of Maryland.
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