Friday, March 15

Discussion of Pearl Harbor.

  • Attacked us on Sunday because they knew we would be more relaxed.
  • Japanese started planning almost a year ahead in January 1941.
  • Tojo was not in head of this Yamamoto was.
  • There was suppose to be a third wave of bombings.
  • 23 sets of brothers were killed on the USS Arizona.
  • We were only worried about the Japanese people living in Hawaii.
  • Elvis played to raise money for the Pearl Harbor memorial.
  • There was a lady doing flight lessons who flew right passed the Japanese and if she had a radio she could have warned us.
  • Over 3,500 American casualties.
  • 350 airships were brought down.
  • All 8 battleships were destroyed.
  • One of the guys controlling the radar saw the planes coming and ignored it.
  • Japanese only lost 35 people and one was captured.
  • Conspiracy Theories:
    • FDR cut off trade with Japan so they would attack because he really wanted to get into war.
    • FDR had advance knowledge of the attack. 
    • Through the magic system we knew an attack was coming.
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