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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

3 posted on 05/12/2011 5:11:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

4 posted on 05/12/2011 5:12:09 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Quoting Prange: "By this time Yoshikawa's messages indicated a ready improvement in the quality of his activities.
By May 12 he not only recognized and reported on battleships by name but also spotted Utah as a target ship. Of course, be did not always report accurately.
To expect perfection would have been too much, because almost invariably he observed Pearl Harbor with the naked eye from a distance."

Japanese spy reports from Hawaii, including later "bomb plots" of Pearl Harbor, were intercepted by the FBI and other US intellignece.

None of this data was passed on to Admiral Kimmel or General Short.

9 posted on 05/12/2011 5:51:51 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)

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