Akira Kawasaki wrote:
Nov. 22, 2005
Vortex,
Military documents obtained through "Freedom of Information Act"
invoked by Stinnet shows that United States had broken both
diplomatic and military codes used by Japan by 1939-1940.
Roosevelt knew every move Japan was making. He knew that their navy
was on the way. There was no radio silence as asserted. "God Bless"
the Army and Navy code breakers.
Pearl Harbor was not a surprise, the Midway tactic was known, and
Yamamoto was later killed by knowing his inspection route.
The sad thing on Japan's side was that they never caught on that their
codes were broken.
Like Germany.... The German high command was so convinced of German
intellectual superiority that they refused to consider the possibility
that anyone could have broken their unbreakable code.
It is also safe to assume that United States knew about Japan
scrambling to come to surrender negotiations through then neutral
Russia much prior to dropping of the Atomic Bomb.
It was Truman, not Roosevelt, who decided to go through with that. We
shouldn't blame Eisenhower, either, who later said something to the
effect of, "They didn't have to use that thing!"
FWIW I was taught in school that Japan had indeed offered a conditional
surrender before the second bomb fell, but Truman would not settle for
any such offer, he wanted the surrender to be unconditional, dictated
and not negotiated. After the second bomb he got his "unconditional"
surrender.
Those commanders caught by surprise at Pearl were kept out of the
crucial information loop. MacAurthur was not one of those. He just
didn't get enough supplies in time. You see, Europe was the priority.
By the way, Stinnet's book is "Day of Deceit, The Truth About FDR and
Pearl Harbor".
So, if it's true, why _did_ FDR _not_ send the fleet to sea? Is there
any kind of conclusive answer to that question?
-ak-
- Re: OFF TOPIC History's might-have-been's - Pacific wa... Stephen A. Lawrence
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