Pearl Harbour: Why was it a surprise?
Date Submitted: 02/15/2004 17:35:25
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 5 pages (1249 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 5 pages (1249 words)
"Why, given the intelligence of Japanese naval movements available to the Americans, did the attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7, 1941, come as an apparent surprise?"
Over sixty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it is frustrating to see just how avoidable the devastation was. "Never before have we had so complete an intelligence picture of the enemy. And perhaps never again will we have such a magnificent collection of sources at our disposal" …
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