Predicting Pearl Harbor
Author | : Ronald Drez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455623150 |
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Author | : Ronald Drez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455623150 |
Author | : Roberta Wohlstetter |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804705981 |
This account of the Pearl Harbor attack denies that the lack of preparation resulted from military negligence or a political plot
Author | : Ronald Drez |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1455623164 |
The story of “a military aviation pioneer and patriot who tried—and failed—to warn [about] an attack on Pearl Harbor almost two decades before it occurred” (San Antonio Express-News). Ever since Commodore Matthew Perry’s 1853 voyage into Japanese waters, the United States and Japan had been on a collision course. Gen. Billy Mitchell recognized the signs and foresaw the eventual showdown between the two nations—eighteen years before the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. When he traveled to Japan disguised as a tourist in 1924, what he found was a nation that had embraced a philosophy of isolationism. Japan had defeated China and Russia on the battlefield decades before, due in part to a veil of secrecy. China and Russia were nearly unable to carry out espionage missions against their enemy. Yet Mitchell’s predictions were dismissed out of hand, and his attempts to have his theories taken seriously led to scorn and a subsequent court martialing. In this book, primary-source documents, memoirs, and firsthand testimonies deliver an exhaustive background to Mitchell’s prescient reports. Historian Ronald J. Drez presents an engaging account of the life and career of the man who not only foresaw the event that brought the United States into the Second World War, but also shaped the future of military air power—finally giving credence to the man called the “Cassandra General.”
Author | : William Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Homer N. Wallin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 |
ISBN | : 9780898755657 |
Pearl Harbor will long stand out in mens minds as an example of the results of basic unpreparedness of a peace loving nation, of highly efficient treacherous surprise attack and of the resulting unification of America into a single tidal wave of purpose to victory. Therefore, all will be interested in this unique narrative by Admiral Wallin. The Navy has long needed a succinct account of the salvage operations at Pearl Harbor that miraculously resurrected what appeared to be a forever shattered fleet. Admiral Wallin agreed to undertake the job. He was exactly the right man for it _ in talent, in perception, and in experience. He had served intimately with Admiral Nimitz and with Admiral Halsey in the South Pacific, has commanded three different Navy Yards, and was a highly successful Chief of the Bureau of Ships. On 7 December 1941 the then Captain Wallin was serving at Pearl Harbor. He witnessed the events of that shattering and unifying "Day of Infamy." His mind began to race at high speeds at once on the problems and means of getting the broken fleet back into service for its giant task. Unless the United States regained control of the sea, even greater disaster loomed. Without victory at sea, tyranny soon would surely rule all Asia and Europe. In a matter of time it would surely rule the Americas. Captain Wallin salvaged most of the broken Pearl Harbor fleet that went on to figure prominently in the United States Navys victory. So the account he masterfully tells covers what he masterfully accomplished. The United States owes him an unpayable debt for this high service among many others in his long career.
Author | : Gordon W. Prange |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1480489492 |
The New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in “a superb work of history” (Albuquerque Journal Magazine). In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., they received the order to rain death on the American base at Pearl Harbor, sinking dozens of ships, destroying hundreds of airplanes, and taking the lives of over two thousand servicemen. The carnage lasted only two hours, but more than seventy years later, terrible questions remain unanswered. How did the Japanese slip past the American radar? Why were the Hawaiian defense forces so woefully underprepared? What, if anything, did American intelligence know before the first Japanese pilot shouted “Tora! Tora! Tora!”? In this incomparable volume, Pearl Harbor experts Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon tackle dozens of thorny issues in an attempt to determine who was at fault for one of the most shocking military disasters in history.
Author | : Jeffrey J. Gudmens |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 142891644X |
Author | : Steve Twomey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476776482 |
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy, "--NoveList.
Author | : Frederick D. Parker |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 |
ISBN | : 9781478344292 |
This is the story of the U.S. Navy's communications intelligence (COMINT) effort between 1924 and 1941. It races the building of a program, under the Director of Naval Communications (OP-20), which extracted both radio and traffic intelligence from foreign military, commercial, and diplomatic communications. It shows the development of a small but remarkable organization (OP-20-G) which, by 1937, could clearly see the military, political, and even the international implications of effective cryptography and successful cryptanalysis at a time when radio communications were passing from infancy to childhood and Navy war planning was restricted to tactical situations. It also illustrates an organization plagues from its inception by shortages in money, manpower, and equipment, total absence of a secure, dedicated communications system, little real support or tasking from higher command authorities, and major imbalances between collection and processing capabilities. It explains how, in 1941, as a result of these problems, compounded by the stresses and exigencies of the time, the effort misplaced its focus from Japanese Navy traffic to Japanese diplomatic messages. Had Navy cryptanalysts been ordered to concentrate on the Japanese naval messages rather than Japanese diplomatic traffic, the United States would have had a much clearer picture of the Japanese military buildup and, with the warning provided by these messages, might have avoided the disaster of Pearl Harbor.
Author | : John C. Davenport |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 |
ISBN | : 1438104332 |
Traces events leading up to and resulting from the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.