PACIFIC ZERO HOUR NEAR; JAPAN ANSWERS U. S. TODAY - Hawaiian newspaper headline
"We have completed destruction of codes, but since the U.S. - Japanese negotiations are still continuing I request you approval of our desire to delay for a while yet the destruction of the one code machine." - Message from Washington to Tokyo transmitted in Purple code. Translated on December 6th
Mary L. Ross, a clerk in the Cable Branch in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff logs a message to be sent to Hawaii and other stations. This message logged as being sent on the same day is cable No. 519, the message on the Winds Code.
Washington's "good night" message to Hawaii, designed to verify if Hawaii had gotten all the messages sent to it that day is returned by Hawaii verifying that they had received messages 517 through 521. This would include message 519, the Winds Code message.
Panzer forces around Leningrad grind to a halt along the Leningrad, Piatitskoe and Volokolamsk roads.
The Red Army begin a counter offensive in the Kalinin Front sector that will spread from Kalinin to Kastornoe.
16 posted on 12/05/2011 10:13:53 AM PST by CougarGA7
("History is politics projected into the past" - Michael Pokrovski)
rochefort claimed, as reported by Prange, he never got the winds execute message, and therefore it seems neither did kimmel. is there a different view?