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FDR:December 7, 1941, "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" (Video)
You Tube ^ | December 7, 1941 | Staff

Posted on 12/07/2010 8:13:52 AM PST by lbryce

FDR's Address to The Nation in the aftermath of the sneak attack by the Imperial Forces of Japan on our naval base at Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War 2


(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan; pearlharbor; sneakattack; usa
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To: jamaksin

Irving is a Nazi shill whose has been caught lying on history. Why should anyone trust what he wrote on the subject?


101 posted on 12/08/2010 10:20:14 AM PST by rmlew (You want change? Vote for the most conservative electable in your state or district.)
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To: jamaksin
"...irrespective of various bearing cuts, enough was known to issue that FLASH IMMEDIATE..."

Quite possibly true. But I don't think there need be a conspiracy lurking behind the decision to do nothing. Beauracracy and incompetence are powerful enough without subversion.

102 posted on 12/08/2010 10:24:43 AM PST by jboot (Let Christ be true and every man a liar.)
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To: skeeter
Um ... you might do better to remove the fuses making the rigs totally without power.

But, as the receivers of that era were of superheterodyne design, their local oscillators radiated. Well-known those IF freqencies were detectable.

There seem to be several "authoritative" source having various, ispo facto, "According to ..."

103 posted on 12/08/2010 10:52:38 AM PST by jamaksin
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To: rmlew
Regards the bit about the Beinecke Library in New Haven, CT - I checked.

What Irving had written was totally correct.

Of course, your mileage might vary.

104 posted on 12/08/2010 10:58:48 AM PST by jamaksin
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To: jboot
Surely a long-lived subject to be so un-settled to so many.

Over the years additional materials seems to occur at some pace. All of this material goes in one direction.

A mea culpa for incompetence seems a very long time in coming.

But, perhaps.

105 posted on 12/08/2010 11:12:40 AM PST by jamaksin
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To: jamaksin
There seem to be several "authoritative" source having various, ispo facto, "According to ..."

True, but in this case the 'authoriative sources' happen to be primary source material from the attack planners themselves. See The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans edited by Dillon & Goldstein.

Good luck arguing that one.

106 posted on 12/08/2010 11:57:23 AM PST by skeeter
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To: lbryce
My grandfather was a first lieutenant in an artillery unit stationed at Camp Blanding, Florida. They had just gotten back from maneuvers in Louisiana and one of his fellow officers was planning to get married the next weekend, so my grandfather (who was the only junior officer with a car) drove him into Jacksonville to make the final arrangements for the reception dinner.

As they entered town, they noticed large crowds gathered around the corner drug stores, listening to the radio, but they thought it was a football game. When they got to the restaurant, the maitre de asked them if they shouldn't be getting back to base. When they asked him what he meant, he informed them of the attack.

107 posted on 12/08/2010 12:06:03 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: skeeter
I do beg your pardon, but Prange and Associates (Goldstein - PhD, from University of Denver, awarded in 1970. Dissertation was on the USAF career of Ennis Whitehead), and Dillon (retired USAF warrant officer) ... are not authoritative, nor definitive, or even correct.

Truly sorry to break the news.

108 posted on 12/08/2010 12:29:28 PM PST by jamaksin
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To: jamaksin
I understand that Prange and associates did/do not cotton to the revisionists interpretations of events leading up to the attack, but are you seriously implying that the materials presented in the book I mentioned are fabricated?
109 posted on 12/08/2010 12:38:07 PM PST by skeeter
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To: jamaksin; skeeter
I read Irving because he draws on sources that other authors ignore. There is much original and undoubtably factual material in "PQ-17", "The Mare's Nest" and "The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor".

Unfortunately his politics make his conclusions suspect. Particularly dicey is "Hitler's War," which despite a large amount of previously unpulished material IMHO contains much prosy sleight-of-hand intended to deflect blame away from Hitler. Also, "The War Between the Generals" is a mountain made of a most insignificant molehill and for my part was a waste of a good weekend. Moreover Irving did not help his reputation by acting like a total ass vis-a-vis the Lipstadt trial or by being a 9-11 "truther."

With Irving, your mileage does definitely vary. I find Trevor-Roper's astonishing "Hitler's Table Talk" to be far more valuable than anything Irving has ever had to say on his favorite topic.

110 posted on 12/08/2010 12:49:38 PM PST by jboot (Let Christ be true and every man a liar.)
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To: jamaksin
I've read all of the revisionist tomes I could get my hands on - Toland, Martin, Stinnett, etc.

As I said before, there is only ONE question that hasn't been satisfactorily answered - was there a 'winds execute' message transmitted to DC, but not passed on to area commanders, as claimed by the leader of Op‑20‑G, or not?

All the other stuff is so much 'grassy knoll' type speculation easily refuted.

111 posted on 12/08/2010 12:59:16 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter
Fabricated ... Um, may I give you some examples.

In the tome At Dawn We Slept, (often ADWS) there is the comment that the only signaling AKAGI did was via signal lamp.

From my earlier posing in this thread is the reference to AKAGI heard on tactical circuits.

Signal lamps are not heard on tactical circuits - that is, radio circuits.

Another example, the comment of superlative scholarship in ADWS (published in 1981) does not mention the important Briggs interview released to the National Archive in 1979 - they missed it.

There are other examples ...

Fabricated? Shoddy? Dated?

But you might think I have an "Axe to Grind."

So, from Gannon's Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation Under Attack Page 323:

Note 56: ... comments on the Martin-Bellinger report ... Prange et. al., were what? Wrong. Was this by intent? Does that impeach Prange et al.

Or, Pineau (USN Retired, Japanese linguist for Morison) and co-author with Layton and Costello of And I Was There ... comments on Prange "methodolgy" at the end of that text.

So ... your pick.

112 posted on 12/08/2010 1:09:40 PM PST by jamaksin
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To: skeeter
Might try "Seeds and Fruits of Infamy" - Percy L. Greaves, Jr., released in June 2010.
113 posted on 12/08/2010 1:15:11 PM PST by jamaksin
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To: jamaksin
Your citations are so vague its hard for me to comment from where I sit ... for example its hard for me to tell whether your references to major fleet unit transmissions aren't based upon the phony ones generated in the Inland Sea, etc as the fleet advanced quietly towards Hawaii.

I'm not saying the FDR adminstration was oblivious, on the contrary it was very much in FDR's policy interests that the Japanese 'make the first overt move'. I just don't think they were as on top of events as the revisionists think they were.

114 posted on 12/08/2010 1:23:29 PM PST by skeeter
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To: jboot
Sorry, remiss and not complete in earlier post.

PHA_Part24_Page1750 (from SECRET Knox Report)

[Often called Knox Mid-Night Message, has quite a twisted path. This message is not be confused with the "RCA Message" issued by Marshall. The Knox warning has not yet been found; likely destroyed long ago.]

"A general war warning had been sent out from the Navy Department on November 27th, to Admiral Kimmel. General Short told me that a message of warning sent from the War Department on Saturday night at midnight, before the attack, failed to reach him unitl four or five hours after th attack had been made."

PHA_Part24_1753

[This gets to the claim of un-preparededness of Pearl Harbor. Lots of front-line equipment were priority to non-US force. Interesting path.]

"Of course, the best means of defense aginst air attack consists of fighters planes. Lack of an adequate number of this type of aircraft available to the Army for the defense of the Island, is due to the diversion of this type before the outbreak of the war, to the British, the Chinese, the Dutch, and the Russians.

The next best weapon against air attack is adequate and well disposed anti-aircraft artillery. There is a dangerous shortage of guns of this type on the Island. This is through no fault of the Army Commander who has pressed consistently for these guns."

And I Was There - Layton, Costello, and Pineau

Page 342:

[For those who have never a conspiracy.]

"Wilkinson recounted how he had been accompained by Captain McCollum to the munitions building where he found General Miles and Colonel Bratton already present in the boardroom. His digest of the evidence of the morning of 19 December suggest that there was a certain degree of collusion and deliberate misstatement in what appears to have been a collaborative effort by army and navy to convey the impression that no intelligence had been withheld from Admiral Kimmel or General Short."

115 posted on 12/08/2010 1:25:49 PM PST by jamaksin
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To: jamaksin

A cynic might claim Greaves was too partisan to be a reliable source here, but he did attend the hearings. So I’ll check this one out.


116 posted on 12/08/2010 1:26:37 PM PST by skeeter
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To: jamaksin

A cynic might claim Greaves was too partisan to be a reliable source here, but he did attend the hearings. So I’ll check this one out.


117 posted on 12/08/2010 1:26:37 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter
To date there has not been any - not a one - IJN message identified as part of radio deception.

The SS LURLINE is an interesting case, however.

So, how goes your understanding of radio wave propagation?

118 posted on 12/08/2010 1:32:36 PM PST by jamaksin
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To: jamaksin

I do not believe the SS Lurline reliably pinpointed radiating superheterodyne oscillators from 1500 miles.


119 posted on 12/08/2010 1:47:55 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter
Excuse me, but in my last reply did I say anywhere "pinpointed" or offer a distance or mention local oscillators?

Pre-supposition at work?

I asked about your understanding of radio wave propagation.

120 posted on 12/08/2010 1:55:05 PM PST by jamaksin
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