Pearl Harbor
Could the bombing of Pearl Harbor have been avoided and many lives been saved if the Americans had kept better track of Japanese intelligence, and if President Franklin D. Roosevelt had warned Pearl Harbor that it was going to be attacked? President Roosevelt denied intelligence to Hawaii, sent false information to Hawaii about the location of the Japanese carrier fleet, and misled commanders into believing that negotiations with Japan were continuing. In 1887 the U.S government first got exclusive use of the inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii; a principal naval base of the Unites States, for repairs and a coaling station for ships. On November 26, 1941 Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's fleet assembled in Tankan Bay and in the Kurile Islands and left, in secrecy, for Hawaii. On December 7, the fleet of six heavy aircraft carriers and 24 supporting vessels arrived, and the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was attacked. The six carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes made up of torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers, and fighters. The Japanese planes also attacked military and naval airfields which were nearby. When the attack ended 2 hours later, a lot of damage was done, eight American battleships and ten ot
her naval vessels were either damaged or they sunk, close to 200 American aircraft were destroyed, and around 3000 naval and military personnel were killed or wounded. When Roosevelt put an embargo on all trade of oil, steel, machinery and other goods to Japan he caused many problems for them, because Japan bought more than half of their imports from the U. Nearly 120,000 ethnic Japanese, including American citizens were removed from the Pacific Coast. Twenty-nine planes, which was less than 10 percent of their attacking force, failed to return to their carriers. Japan's losses were not very bad comparatively. " Then on July 24, FDR told the Volunteer Participation Committee "If we had cut the oil off, they probably would have gone down to the Dutch East Indies a year ago, and you would have had war. Some people, however, feel that the war between the United States and Japan was inevitable. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor the United States declared war on Japan and formally entered into World War II. " The next day he froze all Japanese assets in the United States cutting off their main supply of oil, and forcing them into war. Some things that led up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor are that President Roosevelt felt threatened by Japan because they were starting to make naval bases on the land they controlled. 5 If the United States and President Roosevelt had paid closer attention and not ignored warnings, and kept things in secret, I feel that the bombing of Pearl Harbor could have been avoided. The Japanese were humiliated and decided to hire French officers to retrain their solders and British shipbuilders to create their navy. Many things led up to the war, beginning on July 8, 1853 when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his black-hulled steam frigate Susquehanna into Edo Bay and "opened" Japan at gun point, after more than two centuries of isolation to American merchants and missionaries. In July The US Military Attache in Mexico forwarded a report that the Japanese were constructing special small submarines for attacking the American fleet in Pearl Harbor.
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