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Gordon Prange was born on 16 July, 1910 in United States, is an American historian. Discover Gordon Prange's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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1910

Gordon William Prange (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.

Gordon William Prange was born on July 16, 1910, in Pomeroy, Iowa.

His parents were Al, a blacksmith and his wife Johanna.

He had one older brother Russell.

He attended Pomeroy High School, where he excelled in baseball and track athletics.

He was also known as the class clown.

1928

He graduated from Pomeroy in 1928 and enrolled at the University of Iowa intending to become a coach, but switched to history.

1934

He obtained his bachelor's degree, his master's degree in 1934, and doctorate in 1937.

1935

He studied at the University of Berlin in 1935 to 1936, during which he said: "I saw Hitler operate firsthand and heard him speak a number of times."

1937

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.

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.

In 1937 he married Anne Root, a professor's daughter from Iowa City.

They had two daughters and a son.

They moved to Maryland, where Prange took employment as a history instructor at the University of Maryland.

1963

Prange's 1963 ''Tora!

Tora!

1970

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.

1980

Prange died on May 15, 1980, in Baltimore, Maryland, from cancer, aged 69.

'Prange Park' in Pomeroy is named after him.

All below by Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon:

2000

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.

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".