Watch this before anything...
This is footage from a movie about the attack and will give a little background and thanks to VarlooDesign for posting the video.
The Inquiries...
Ten times....ten times the United States investigated the Pearl Harbor attack and each time it was blamed on something like lack of communication or arrogance.
Inquiries:
Inquiries:
- Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (1941)
- Roberts Commission (1941-42)
- Hart Inquiry (1944)
- Army Pearl Harbor Board (1944)
- Naval Court of Inquiry (1944)
- The Hewitt investigation
- The Clarke investigation
- Congressional Inquiry (1945-46)
- Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, authorized by Congress and carried out by Henry Clausen (the Clausen Inquiry; 1946) - TOP SECRET
- Thurmond-Spence Hearing, took place in April 1995
The Japanese Code
There is always been a standing argument that the United States had broken the code from a Japanese telegram that told them that the Japanese where going to attack Pearl Harbor and there had been evidence to support that because the United States had been a code breaking machine to keep tabs on the war in Europe. Vice Admiral Frank E. Beatty said this "Prior to December 7, it was evident even to me... that we were pushing Japan into a corner. I believed that it was the desire of President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill that we get into the war, as they felt the Allies could not win without us and all our efforts to cause the Germans to declare war on us failed; the conditions we imposed upon Japan—to get out of China, for example—were so severe that we knew that nation could not accept them. We were forcing her so severely that we could have known that she would react toward the United States. All her preparations in a military way—and we knew their over-all import—pointed that way."
The McCollum Memo
On October 7, 1940 Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum sent a letter detailing 8 ways that the US could have avoided the Japanese Attack.
The Memo
There are so many different theories so i will save others for another post but here is another link so that people are able to see all of them.
Time for me to rant!
Well heres how i think that it happened. Yes it is possible that lack of communication hand something to do with it but I put it on the shoulders of the president. Franklin Roosevelt contrary to popular believe was in favor of the US involvement because up to this point the Allies were losing and they knew and Roosevelt knew that the US was the only country that could win it for the Allies and there was only one way to get into the war. Get attacked. So when the chance came; he took it. Now he did not plan Pearl Harbor he just looked at the Atlantic instead of the Pacific and then when he turned around he was able to get into a war. "A Day that will Live in Infamy" but what will it live for? Poor organization? Or was it something a little more subtle?Lie maybe a blind eye to the obvious...I think so... This is suspicion88 saying keep an eye on the look out...