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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, leading to America's entry into World War II occurred at 7:55 AM (local time) on this day, December 7, in 1941.
The Washington Post reports:
The Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and other military bases on Oahu lasted two hours, leaving 21 U.S. ships heavily damaged and 323 aircraft damaged or destroyed.
It killed 2,390 people and wounded 1,178.
Why does nobody mention the fact that the attack could have been prevented?! I guess someone believed it would be a better opportunity if it were allowed to happen.
From a September 2004 Common Dreams web site article:
In his 1982 book 'Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath', Pulitzer-prize winner John Toland reveals that almost everything the Japanese were planning to do "was known to the United States" on the morning of the attack, via intercepted messages never communicated to commanders at Pearl Harbor. He cites the case of US counterintelligence translator Dorothy Edgers who uncovered critical Japanese messages days before the assault, including "a scheme of signals regarding the movement and exact position of warships and carriers in Pearl Harbor." But Edgers' boss, Alwin Kramer, seemed "more annoyed than electrified" at the discovery and ordered her to "run along home." Unbeknownst to Edgers, Kramer was part of the subterfuge.
Please join me in a sincere moment of silence for all who were allowed to die senselessly due to the President Franklin Roosevelt's administration's decision not to warn the base of the incoming Imperial Japanese Navy.
Other books and articles:
- Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert Stinnett - Pearl Harbor: Official Lies in an American War Tragedy?
from a special program at The Independent Institute - What We Need to Know About Pearl Harbor and Why
by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, Times Record Contributor - The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
What Really Happened web site
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