A Day Of Infamy

America, led by Franklin D. Roosevelt, placed an embargo on all aviation fuel, steel, scrap iron, and other raw materials to Japan. Then, a crucial event took place on August 17th, 1940; Lieutenant-Colonel Friedman (an American Cryptographer) breaks the secret "Japanese Purple Code (MAGIC)" (Essential Pearl Harbor). America could now decipher some secret messages being sent to and from Japan.

The Japanese government saw these acts on behalf of America, an Arsenal of Democracy, as a threat to Japan remaining an independent and surviving nation. Because their country lacks natural resources and had an embargo placed on them, the Japanese government decided to overpower and occupy the areas in Southeast Asia that had lots of resources (Infamy). Top Japanese officials felt that war with the United States was inevitable, but with a large American fleet in the Pacific stationed at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, war was going to be difficult if Japan was on the defensive. It would have been to Japan"tms advantage if they were the ones to pick the time and place of battle, as they went on to do. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto came up with the idea of annihilating the entire American



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rogram to develop China's power in the pacific. America, led by Franklin D. Roosevelt, placed an embargo on all aviation fuel, steel, scrap iron, and other raw materials to Japan. Then, a crucial event took place on August 17th, 1940; Lieutenant-Colonel Friedman (an American Cryptographer) breaks the secret "Japanese Purple Code (MAGIC)" (Essential Pearl Harbor). America could now decipher some secret messages being sent to and from Japan.

On November 26, 1941, the large Japanese fleet left the Kurile Islands near Japan for Hawaii (The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor). To achieve a complete element of surprise, the fleet sailed under radio silence and took a northerly route to avoid coming in contact with any civil or merchant ships. By dawn of December 7th, 1941, the entire Japanese fleet reached their destination of a point 200 miles from Oahu undetected. Many people claim to have had a bad feeling on that fateful morning. That might have stemmed from the previous day when U.S. officials intercepted a message sent from Japan to various embassies around the world ordering them to destroy all decoders and secret documents. While the Japanese fleet was silently waiting for dawn off the coast of Oahu, some American officials played any the chance of an attack on Pearl Harbor, which had been rumored. Officials said it would be impossible to torpedo the fleet because the water was too shallow. Officials also said that the new, untested radar system that had just been installed would easily pick up an oncoming threat miles before it reached the island. There had been such rigorous training and preparation for the attack that the Japanese had already taken care of the problems. Japanese engineers invented an attachable wooden fin device that made it possible for torpedoes to be effective in shallow water. They had connections and intelligence from Oahu that contained detailed maps and diagrams of the harbor and its contents. Unfortunately, America was always one step behind the Japanese.

The first wave of the attack was launched at approximately 6:00 AM on December 7th, 1941. It was made up of 183 aircraft, including dive bombers, horizontal bombers, torpedo bombers, and fighters that were to fly in from the north and around the western side of the island to attack Pearl Harbor. The aircraft first arrived at the island at around 7:00 AM and was reported. Officials to whom the report was sent passed off the report as an expected group of American planes that were to arrive that morning. Pearl Harbor, which contained approximately 100 ships from the U.S. Navy at the time, was attacked at 7:55 AM. Over ha

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