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Prime Minister Pearl Harbor is generally regarded as an extraordinary event in American history, remembered as the first time since the Some Japanese today feel they were compelled to fight because of threats to their national interests and an In putting the Pearl Harbor attack into context, Japanese writers repeatedly contrast the thousands of U.S. citizens killed there with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians killed in However, in spite of the perceived inevitability of the war by many Japanese, many also believe the Pearl Harbor attack, although a tactical victory, was actually part of a seriously flawed strategy against the U.S. As one columnist wrote, "The Pearl Harbor attack was a brilliant tactic, but part of a strategy based on the belief that a spirit as firm as iron and as beautiful as cherry blossoms could overcome the materially wealthy United States. Leib recounted his story in the History Channel documentary, "Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor. Hitler’s fate was sealed. It is not even known who originally translated the intercept. Short followed through with sabotage precautions, bunching his planes together (which hinders saboteurs but makes ideal targets for bombers), and Kimmel stepped up air surveillance and sub searches. This article, slightly revised, originally appeared under the title "Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction" in the June 4, 2001 issue of The New American. Both destroyers were scrapped and the drydock was damaged, but it did return to service by February 1942.If the fuel situation was bad, the repair situation was worse. But that still left too few drydocks for the But the number of drydocks wasn't the biggest factor in whether a ship could be repaired at Pearl, because there But the most naive claim of this entire story is that Nimitz was optimistic as to the situation in December 1941. Nimitz was no fool. Leib had formerly held several posts in the Roosevelt administration. Citizens realized that U.S. participation in World War I had not made a better world, and in a 1940 (election-year) speech, Roosevelt typically stated: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. "Imperial Japanese military leaders appear to have had mixed feelings about the attack. Some would never be found. None of these areas was closer than 5,000 miles to Hawaii! Furthermore, based on known data regarding the present disposition and deployment of Japanese naval and army forces, no move against Pearl Harbor appears imminent or planned for in the foreseeable future. In fact, their rate of fire was too low to deal with aircraft, as experience with Prime Minister Pearl Harbor is generally regarded as an extraordinary event in American history, remembered as the first time since the Some Japanese today feel they were compelled to fight because of threats to their national interests and an In putting the Pearl Harbor attack into context, Japanese writers repeatedly contrast the thousands of U.S. citizens killed there with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians killed in However, in spite of the perceived inevitability of the war by many Japanese, many also believe the Pearl Harbor attack, although a tactical victory, was actually part of a seriously flawed strategy against the U.S. As one columnist wrote, "The Pearl Harbor attack was a brilliant tactic, but part of a strategy based on the belief that a spirit as firm as iron and as beautiful as cherry blossoms could overcome the materially wealthy United States. In any case, relations had already significantly deteriorated since Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, which the U.S. strongly disapproved of. As Chief of Naval Operations, Stark had only one higher authority: Roosevelt.In the War Department, where the 14-part statement had also been decoded, Colonel Rufus Bratton, head of the Army's Far Eastern section, discerned the message's significance. Hopkins told Churchill: "The President is determined that we [the United States and England] shall win the war together. England would live; Britain would live; the Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. Hitler’s fate was sealed. In August, he fully reported this to the FBI in New York. Japan had signed a mutual defense pact with Germany and Italy (the Tripartite Treaty). Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. No threat to Pearl Harbor was hinted at. More details of the exchanges at the meeting are available online at Isoroku Yamamoto to Shigeharu Matsumoto (Japanese cabinet minister) and Fumimaro Kondoye (Japanese prime minister), quoted in "The Dorn report did not state with certainty that Kimmel and Short knew about Taranto. Secretary Stimson, describing FDR's White House conference of November 25th, noted: "The President said the Japanese were notorious for making an attack without warning and stated that we might be attacked, say next Monday, for example." 739–40 (78th Cong., 1st Sess. The attack on Pearl Harbor immediately united a divided nation. The message, to be repeated three times during a weather report, was "Higashi no kaze ame," meaning "East wind, rain."