Boy’s pancake breakfast delayed the end of WWII

Writing by Chris on Wednesday, 15 of March , 2006 at 7:08 pm

If he at least got the digits, it was totally worth it.


On Aug. 14, 1945, Jones, a 16-year-old messenger in Washington, D.C., was entrusted to deliver to the White House the cable announcing Japan’s surrender to the United States to end World War II.

Unaware of his cargo’s import, the boy, in cavalier teenage fashion, put work on hold to eat pancakes at a diner, hang out with his friends and flirt with waitresses.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-13-pan

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