Yet Japanese forces had not landed in Hawaii nor did they take Pearl Harbor. They had sunk part of the American Pacific fleet but only by now the outdated battleships. ibid.
In China the Imperial Army had carried out unbelievable massacres. ibid.
Hong Kong falls to Japan in just seventeen days. ibid.
MacArthur’s soldiers are taken prisoner. ibid.
In just five months Japan has destroyed the allied forces in the far east and conquered half of the Pacific. ibid.
120,000 Japanese-Americans fall under suspicion. ibid.
Darwin the northernmost city in Australia already bombed by the Japanese is now preparing for an invasion. The country’s first war. ibid.
The battle for Guadalcanal is only just beginning; the fighting will last six months. ibid.
The Japanese are victims of their fanatical military leaders. World War II: The Apocalypse: Retreat and Surrender aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: Inferno
April Fool’s Day 1945: dawned bright and clear in the east China sea, as an armada of America warships and troop-carriers assembled off the island of Okinawa. The fighting that was to follow the American landings on Okinawa was so savage that it prompted one witness to describe it as history’s greatest mad-house. It also brought a new word to the English language: kamikaze, or suicide bomber. Secrets of World War e10: The Greatest Sea/Air Battle in History, Yesterday 1998
The Chinese army was no match for the Japanese war machine. ibid.
Paradoxically, Yamamoto was an admirer of the United States. ibid.
For six months the Japanese ran riot: the British were swept out of Malaya and Singapore. The Americans were driven out of the Philippines. ibid.
Like the Germans, the Japanese never realised their codes had been broken ... It was the critical secret of the war. ibid.
The Japanese dream of empire went down with their carriers at Midway. On 7th August 1942 American marines stormed ashore at Guadalcanal where the Japanese were building an airfield. ibid.
American troops were appalled to see how many civilians were prepared to commit suicide. ibid.
December 7th 1941: a date which will live in Infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan. F D Roosevelt
Japan may strike over the weekend. Hilo Tribune Herald, Sunday 30th November 1941
It may have been a surprising attack to the American people but not to the Federal government and the military. Months before the attack they knew the Japanese were preparing for an all-out assault in the Pacific. Alex Jones, 9/11 The Road to Tyranny
On 7th December 1941 when Franklin Roosevelt was President, Japanese aircraft attacked the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, drawing America into the war. But did the then government know in advance this attack was going to happen? Was there a hidden agenda? Conspiracies – 9/11 and the Evil in America
But they didn’t make preparations at Pearl Habor for that attack and I believe that’s because they wanted the war because we were in a depression and that was the only way they saw to get out of the depression. Norman Livergood, author America, Awake!
The question was how we should manoeuvre them into firing the first shot ... It was desirable to make sure the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt as to who were the aggressors. Henry Stimson, Secretary of War
Mitsuo Fuchida, a commander in the Imperial Japanese navy, was the air-strike leader of the Japanese carrier force that attacked Pearl Harbor. Considered one of Japan’s most skillful fliers, Commander Fuchida ... led the first wave of 183 airplanes against the US fleet at Pearl Harbor ... he was the one who shouted the war cry, ‘Tora, Tora, Tora’.
Of the 70 Japanese officers who participated in the raid on Pearl Harbor, Fuchida was the only one who returned to Japan alive. He later fought against the United States throughout the war in the Pacific.
Fuchida was a national hero in Japan, but at war’s end he was a disillusioned and bitter man. Don Gilleland, Unique Story of Pearl Harbor
It is clear that not only was the attack on Pearl Harbor known weeks in advance it was outright wanted and provoked. Zeitgeist, cited John Nada, Wake Up Call, 2007
In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt had done everything in his power to anger the Japanese through posture and aggression ... On December 4th, three days before the attack, Australia Intelligence told Roosevelt about a Japanese task-force moving towards Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt ignored it ... On December 7th 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor killing 2,400 people. ibid.
We’re now just finding out, and it’s becoming common knowledge, that the attack on Pearl Harbor wasn’t the surprise attack we were all told it was. In fact the powers that be knew days ahead of time that the attack was pending. Dave vonKleist, 9/11 In Plane Sight the director’s cut, 2004
The military gained more power, becoming the dominant force of Japanese policy. The invasion of Manchuria is a major landmark on the timeline to war. It was the first blow in the death of a thousand cuts that was inflicted on the League of Nations. A whole year after the Japanese completed their conquest the League issued a report. Carefully and worthily written that condemned Japan’s action. Nothing happened. Japan left the League. This was a whole year before Hitler’s rise to power. World War II: The Complete History, Discovery 2000
On December 7 1941 at 6 a.m. the Japanese planes appeared in the skies above Hawaii. It was a Sunday morning. The surprise was complete. At Pearl Harbor that day seventy warships lay at anchor, including eight battleships. Torpedo dive-bombers attacked the lines of ships and the airfields. Then high-level bombers made further assaults. In an attack that lasted a bare two hours six battleships were sunk and damaged, numerous smaller ships were sunk and damaged, more than 160 aircraft were destroyed. World War II: The Complete History: The Day of Infamy
She had been at war for longer than any of the other major powers, fighting a war of conquest in China. Japan’s motivation in this expansion was resources. In a circular logic it fought wars to provide the materials for its forces to fight more wars. ibid.
On 15th December Japanese armies had invaded the British colony of Burma. The Japanese were attempting to cut supply lines to their Nationalist Chinese enemies and to use Burma as a base for attacks on British India. World War II: The Complete History: Six Months to Run Wild
In March 1942 more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans living on the west coast of America were forced to move, abandoning their businesses and homes. ibid.
Japanese power had come to dominate the western Pacific and Asia ... Japan is now on the defensive. World War II: The Complete History: The End of the Beginning
Japan was to reap the final fruit of its militarism and aggression. World War II: The Complete History: The Presence of History
I can run wild for the first six months or a year. I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years. Anyone who has seen the oil fields of Texas and the factories of Detroit knows this. Admiral Yamamoto
December 7th 1941: American naval and air targets at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, were attacked by the Japanese. The following morning the United States joined the Allies, declaring war against Japan and Germany. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed the course of history. Unsolved History: Myths of Pearl Harbor, Discovery 2003
The Japanese attack did not begin from the air but from the sea. And the first shots of the Pacific war were fired by America not by Japanese. This action preceded the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor by more than four hours. ibid.
Despite the risks the Japanese put the midget-submarine plan into action hoping to cripple America’s Pacific fleet. Japanese preparations for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began in the autumn. The midget-subs were the coup de grace in one of the most daring military actions ever devised. ibid.
As a result of the strike twenty-one warships were sunk or damaged, including all of the battleships in Pearl Harbor. Two thousand three hundred and ninety Americans were killed. Another one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight were wounded. ibid.
That brings up another myth: that the Japanese were responsible for all of the American deaths at Pearl Harbor. War is not only hell, it is chaos. ibid.
Although the US Pacific fleet was shattered, Admiral Nagumo, the commander of the Japanese task force, failed to strike the fatal blow intended. His primary targets – the American aircraft-carriers – were not in port at the time of the attack. ibid.
A third wave attack never happened. ibid.
All eight US battleships are put out of action. 1,178 Americans are wounded; 2,403 are killed. America: The Story of the US: WWII, History 2010
Twenty-seven hours after the attack America declares war on Japan. Three days later the US is at war with Germany. ibid.