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Dec 7, 2016 · The following is an excerpt from John Koster’s Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor. Using recently declassified evidence from U.S. archives and newly translated sources from Japan and Russia, it presents new theories on the causes of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Histories of the Pearl Harbor attack properly devote much attention to intelligence warnings about the attack—or their absence. But this literature customarily underplays a subset of three immediate tactical warnings of the attack on the morning of December 7, 1941.
- Malloryk
Yet many Americans believed that the astonishing blow could not have happened without some sort of conspiracy by U.S. political and military leaders who kept significant warning intelligence from Pearl Harbor's commanders, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter C. Short.
Above all, there was a lack of communication and co-ordination among US departments which finally boiled down to a vital warning message on the morning of the attack being delayed by bad...
Feb 1, 2024 · Yamamoto had planned a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. It needed to be kept a secret. Therefore, it was perhaps surprising that Yamamoto decided to have his torpedo pilots train in plain...
Jan 24, 2007 · In recent times, Pearl Harbor historiography has shifted towards the question of whether or not the Pearl Harbor attack could have been predicted through intercepted signals. The recent prodigious output of books and articles on this subject makes it necessary to reflect upon how the debate has developed.
Dec 7, 2021 · December 7, 2021 10:44 AM EST. Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, killing some 2,400 American servicemen and leading the U.S. to enter...
