Lowell Thomas

Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892-1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their classification--biographies of subjects who don't fit into any other category.

In June, 1942, Thomas was working as a radio announcer. It was his sad duty to report that the initial American invasion to retake Hawaii from the Empire of Japan was a disaster, listing three ships sunk.