'Day of infamy' President Franklin D. Roosevelt

for all u people who say that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy ur full of crap. Read a REAL BOOK why dont ya!

Not that I blieve in conspiracies but whenever I see Tora, Tora, Tora or read about the Pearl Harbor attack, one has to wonder if there was anyone in the military who was not an idiot. A Japanese submarine was seen near a US military base and no one thought to sound an alarm until an hour later and still did not react to it.

The American that were seeing the radars in case enemies wanted to attack, saw the airplanes, but thought that they were American war jets coming from California as had been scheduled. It turned out that the jet transfer from California to Hawaii was canceled, but the men in watch, didn't know that so they got confused.

OK Thanks for the clarification. I appreciate that.

gurulau, I agree 100%.Read on internet about PEARL HARBOR MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES. Roosvelt, in accordance with USA arms producers and capitalists prepared a trap and Japan naively took the bait..

GOD BLESS AMERICA!! The Eagle awoke and dropped two eggs over Japan!

There was a warning of the attack coming to pear harbor before it happened, but you have to blame the u.s. postal service for it not getting there. It was sent on regular military mail and the commanding officer there was out golfing.

too relaxed, believing Hawai'i too far from Japan to be a target for all-out attack. Like Roosevelt's adviser's, they expected an assult againt British Malaya, Thailand, or the Philippined. The Pearl harbor calamity stemmed from mistakes and insufficient information, not from conspiracy.

To all those people who say the U.S new about the Japs, American cryptanalysts had broken the Japanese diplomatic code. Although the intercepted told the policymakers that war lay ahead, the intercepts never revealed naval or military plans and never specifically mentioned PEARL HARBOR. The base at Pearl Harbor was not on red alert becasue a message sent from washington warning of the imminence of war had been to casually transmitted by a slow method and had arrived to late. Base commanders were

(continued) and then flown back to Pearl Harbor. Remember, air travel top speed back then was about 150-200 mph, and the decoding was done by hand and brainwork of some very overworked language specialists (no computers back then either). As for deceptions and lies, Roosevelts were but a molehill, compared to Japans ...Mt. Nitaka!