Pearl Harbor blog discussion
The attack happened because of the Japan in Indochina.
Shallow water made it hard to drop the torpedo bombs.
There were supposed to be three waves but the third one got called off, which was a bad idea.
14 part message sent on to president
U.S code breakers tried to figure out the code.
Delayed alert because of a communication break to Hawaii, delayed the alert 4 hours.
On that Sunday morning they were expecting some planes to come in and thought the Japanese were the planes expected although they were coming in from the wrong direction.
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