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To: Tax-chick; sickoflibs

Wheels knew Pearl Harbor was coming, he let it happen, I know it!


11 posted on 10/04/2014 6:26:39 AM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy

I heard that his wife is really Japanese, but she had surgery to disguise her real identity.

I mean, those couldn’t be her real, original teeth, could they?


12 posted on 10/04/2014 6:29:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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Impy: "Wheels knew Pearl Harbor was coming, he let it happen, I know it!"

Of course, they all knew a Japanese attack was coming somewhere, but all said afterwards they didn't know exactly where, and so sent out "war warnings" to all the Pacific area commanders, including MacArthur in the Philippines and Kimmel at Pearl.

Well, apparently neither commander took those warnings seriously -- yes, the wording was rather strange -- and all were caught by surprise, even MacArthur who had zero excuse since the Japanese attack on his forces came after Pearl Harbor.

Halsey said later that if Kimmel had fully understood the threat, he would have sailed out of Pearl to meet the Japanese on the high seas, and thus lost far more ships & men than he did in port.

18 posted on 10/04/2014 7:28:15 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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