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Originally posted by leitmotiv:
Ploughman nailed the radar matter. For me the most persuasive conspiracy book on PH is this one. Whether you accept all his arguments or not, it is a fascinating picture by a man who lived through the times, and was a naval officer in the USN:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=DAY+OF+DECEIT&x=0&y=0

The Japanese Army wanted to throw their strength against the teetering USSR. They favored using the fleet to drive into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies to grab the oil they needed to prosecute the war. They cunningly wanted to hit all the weak partners, Britain, the Dutch, and the Sovs, who were on the ropes in front of Moscow, without striking the U.S. posssessions. This was Churchill's and Stalin's nightmare. FDR would not have been able to do a thing. Stalin would not have been able to shift the Siberian divisions defending Mongolia to the West where they saved Moscow. The Japanese would have had all the oil they needed. This is why Yamamoto's capability as a strategist has been questioned harshly since WWII. Yamamoto's closest advisors, including Admiral Ugaki, warned him the surprise attack on Pearl would succeed in uniting the Americans and enraging them to prosecute a war without mercy until Japan was destroyed. He ignored all the prophets in his headquarters. He believed he could get the U.S. on the ropes and force a negotiated peace after seizing Pearl Harbor sometime in 1942. This has to be the second biggest miscalculation of the war.

A few years ago the United States Naval Institute's NAVAL HISTORY magazine published a fascinating story about the Red Cross and Pearl Harbor. Some months before the attack on 7 Dec, the American Red Cross suddenly went on a building manic in Hawaii. They built new facilities and sent medical staff to Hawaii in numbers. Everyone aware of this was puzzled because Hawaii was seen as a backwater of the Empire where nothing was expected to happen. Furthermore, some people in the highest echelons Red Cross were given to understand something was expected to happen in Hawaii.

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That was some of the best flying I've seen yet! right up to the part where you got killed.
you NEVER NEVER leave your wingman.

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