Posted on 12/07/2021 5:23:28 AM PST by mylife
Pearl Harbor: The First Overt Act “…the Japanese aviators at that time [7 December 1941] were all charged up to go fight. Our people were not charged up to go fight, until after Pearl Harbor was hit.”(1)
Although it has been eighty years since the Japanese delivered the first substantial overt act against the United States of the Second World War, nothing yet published has reasonably explained how the Army and Navy in Hawaii were taken by apparent surprise.
Having spent the past thirty-eight years studying and analyzing Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, we, the authors of this essay, are prepared to provide our readers with a short explanation. We believe the accuracy of our major conclusion is correct.
In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the American people were deceived. But before anyone walks away from further reading, let us assure you that the deception of the past eighty years was in the public’s best interest. Our major conclusion is that while the Japanese planned and worked hard at delivering a sneak attack, “a raid, actually,” the raid the Imperial Japanese Navy planned to deliver against the United States had been well considered by American military strategists.
Our major conclusion–that part of our analysis that has never publicly been explored before–is that the Hawaiian Commanders, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter C. Short, were not deceived by their superiors in the War and Navy Departments in Washington, D.C.
“Affirmative Misrepresentation”
Time and space permitting, we could make a detailed study of testimony given to the various investigations into Pearl Harbor regarding claims made as to whether or not critical intelligence was furnished to the Hawaiian Commanders.
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You mean we haven't even learned to withdraw from Afghanistan properly?
Bingo.
Have they been "un-sanitized" yet?
I said from day 1 bomb them silly and GTFO!
We were fools to leave Iraq, it was all sewn up...
Yes
You know what chaps me?
Go to Pearl, the place is swarming with Japanese gawking at their handiwork, go to Japan on a nuke sub and you get protested
Normalcy bias, preparing for what one thinks the enemy will do rather than what he is capable of doing, and just plain wishful thinking.
And, of course there’s good ol George Santayana’s warning and the worst enemy of all, ignorance. Plenty of that these days.
The most insightful conclusion I have ever heard about surprise attacks is that all of them are surprising because - strategically - they do not make ANY sense.
makes sense to me. :)
If you’re referring to burning of the documents, that’s still Embassy standard operating procedure to this day when the you know what is going to hit the fan.
No, I’m referring to aholes like Joe, who ID our SEALS and get them killed, but if you listen you generally can figure out what’s going on
Certain US naval vessels were sent out of Pearl Harbor, fully loaded and with orders for weapons free engagement with any Japanese shipping encountered. “Weren’t ready to fight”? Wrong and naive at this late date. The British knew what the Japs were up to- having cracked the then Ultra and magic codes, and knew an attacking force was in progress (supposedly target unknown, but the Brits knew that Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore were most likely for their own interests to deal with) General Marshall (the seemingly unknowing, was horseback riding on Sunday EST noontime).
No US carriers were in port. Admiral Halsey’s flagship, and one other at sea, the third in port in CA.
Magic & Ultra codes, the Brits had, and shared with “highest command”. Let’s not kid ourselves that FDR knew, and intended this. The lauded icon of the neo Socialist democrat machine of his 3 terms (and his “New Bill of Rights” which he concocted) have been their guidon for decades, aided by “progressives” and Communists around the world (the Globalist corporatist agenda is manifest in all this- to “get along” with wall street and the post WWII world. The lives lost, as Stalin said “are a statistic”).
Admiral Theobald’s excellent book, “The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Background of the Pearl Harbor Attack”, is lauded by Admiral Halsey, and overviewed by Richard Sorge, here (very interesting reading of command opinion, and intelligence known, and ignored. By design).
http://www.richardsorge.com/literature/books/finalsecretofpearlharbor.pdf
NYslimes via Life Magazine, Sept 22, 1945 (after V-J day, just):
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69091401
The US would have eventually gotten involved as we were a target— of the Japanese. We made ourselves one. The attitude of our State Dept vs. Hitler— see: “In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin”.— excellent highly revealing/research with first person sources .
Our button down State Dept-— well, they were pals of the German Socialists (and co-opted by espionage, by the nazis, and most definitely by Soviet Communists of Stalin. The known agents of Stalin all documented inside FDR’s cabinet and advisors, stoking the democrat fellow travellers).
Unfortunately some Presidents look at the military as expendables.
The Chi-Coms were burning documents in the Houston “consulate”-— dealing directly with the fake ballots in their aid to steal our election from President Trump’s landslide.
Sec. of State Pompeo, Acting DNI Grenell and many others can and have spoken to this fact, and many others.
JoeBama is a tool, a moronic, greedy 50 year apparatchik dem in the employ of the Chi-Coms. A stupid greedy and now demented man and his family of Quislings.
and they made him president, they would have prosecuted me!!
hillary spit! obama, spit!
a pox on them all.
A title of another book, excellent on US Patrol Torpedo Boats.
PT-Boats who were, to say the least— highly exposed plywood, high powered speed boats who served our Navy well in the S. Pacific.
very unfortunate, but you knew that when you joined...
I enlisted under carter LOL
Iran really pissed me off!
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