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2018-12-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

77 years ago, a date that still lives in infamy

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-07 04:54|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Less than a year later, without warning or a declaration of war, FDR would launch an surprise attack upon Vichy French North Africa. Just saying.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-07 06:30|| 2018-12-07 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 #1, True, but less than 6 months later we bombed Tokyo for the first time. God Bless General Doolittle.

Posted by Cesare 2018-12-07 10:01|| 2018-12-07 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 It is also very symbolic, but in an odd way, that the attack was minutely predicted months beforehand in a written intelligence assessment by the naval and army commanders of US air defense for Hawaii, names Bellinger & Martin, forget who was in what service. You can Google it. The report was thoroughly ignored by the US higher command, and is still mostly ignored by professional and amateur historians alike.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-07 17:27|| 2018-12-07 17:27|| Front Page Top

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