'Pearl Harbor in Retrospect': Why the U.S. Was So Unprepared

70 years after the devastating Sunday morning Japan attack on Sunday, the United States played a radical role in the Second World War, and the fascination of the day and its impact on the country were discussed in this issue I continued. But what if there is a possibility that it will be blocked?

In July 1948 between 1940 and 1942, Major General Shaman Myers, Director of the Army Information Bureau, studied "Why did the base of Pearl Harbor make such dark preparations for attack"? Then look at the information that the government, intelligence agencies, military leaders knew at the time and conveyed.

The reason behind the lack of caution in Hawaii is that Washington believed that Japanese would not attack there. This proposal is a smart way to point out important issues. The truth is the opposite - Washington thinks mainly that Japan does not attack Hawaii.

Certainly, this is a hypothesis, as it is based on long-term edification and issued orders, this is a basic assumption that no one in Washington will question the president. Please do not shoot yourself, fly guns.

Mr. Myers compares these incidents with classical tragedies. In retrospect, it seems that this disaster was inevitably brought from Japan's belief that "incredulously Hawaii is surprised".

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii has bombarded most of the US forces. Japan's shipboard launch bomber felt that Pearl Harbor was not ready at all. In an interview conducted by Jontleu of the Montana Historical Society in 1991, Orville Quick, who was assigned to construct an airport on December 6, 1941, remembered attacks when Orville Quick was in the immediate vicinity of Pearl Harbor. He also provided a brilliant and humorous chaotic record from the point of view of the soldier. During the Second World War, more than a dozen female broadcasters were collectively called "Tokyo Rose" by the US Army, and they were removed from fear of war. These Tokyo roses were established by the Japanese Army and used a powerful signal of the Tokyo Radio which was broadcast every evening and played English programs designed to make American soldiers and sailors nostalgic and homesick.

In the morning of December 7, 1941, when a Japanese bomber appeared across the Pearl Harbor, the US forces were not completely equipped with devastating and sudden attacks. And it greatly changed the course of World War II. However, there are several main reasons for this explosion, but from a later point of view it seems almost impossible to avoid this. The island state of Japan is isolated from other countries of the world in most of its history, and has reached an active expansion period at the turn of the 20th century. Two successful wars, the Chinese war from 1894 to 1995 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 2005 promoted these ambitions Japan and the Allies successfully participated in the First World War did.

After the Pearl Harbor incident in 1941, the United States judged that it was not ready for itself, so there was a direct change in politics, psychology, and the economy. The outbreak of war requires multiple adjustments; when the US military is fighting abroad or training at a US military camp, the family is fully devoted to warfare. The front lines of the American family prepare for a complete struggle for war production, and the American society has experienced tremendous change. When men fought, the first major impact was labor shortage. More and more women are now in the labor force. When women are entrusted to men, they are currently engaged in industrial labor and Rosie the Riveter is a symbol of the popularity of the United States of America. Many women are now working full time, but they are still trying to maintain their family life