As the most famous sneak attack in the history of world war, why has pearl harbor been controversial for more than 80 years, and behind the doubts, there are hidden secrets that are hidden by others? When Pearl Harbor was attacked, the three main aircraft carriers happened to be absent, and the Japanese intelligence that had been deciphered long ago did not inform any American generals. Or was it a failure of Japan's strategic plan?
On a weekend in the early morning of December 7, 1941, the soldiers on the battleship Nevada raised the national flag on the deck as usual and played the national anthem, but the Japanese fighters who entered the harbor like locusts were bombarded indiscriminately, turning the place into a sea of fire, and the unsuspecting American soldiers could only rush to battle, but this did not change the situation of the war, and the Us army suffered unprecedented heavy losses. After more than 90 minutes of bombing, the Japanese dropped more than 144 tons of bombs, destroyed and sunk more than 200 aircraft and more than 40 large ships of various kinds, causing 2403 deaths and 1282 wounded. The U.S. Pacific Fleet suffered a major blow and was largely incapacitated from the outside world, while the Japanese lost only 29 fighters, 1 submarine, and 35 deaths, which were negligible for them, and the attack on Pearl Harbor was simply a very cost-effective military operation.
What makes people feel strange is that the US military base for the sneak attack of the Japanese army, there is no slightest precautionary measure, and the three main aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet, in the past few days received the order to go to sea for training, successfully escaped a disaster, more coincidentally, the Japanese raid fighter just left on the front foot, the US rescue team rushed to Pearl Harbor with prepared medical supplies on the back foot, which can not help but make many people speculate, will the United States already know the Japanese sneak attack plan, at that time there were indeed people who were so suspicious. Pearl Harbor was a self-directed and self-enacted bitter meat plan by the American high-level, but because most of the people were angered by Japan's shameful behavior, not too many people put too much energy into the investigation of the bitter meat plan.
The day after Pearl Harbor, the United States was shaken by the fact that it was the first time since the Mexican War of Independence in 1846 that an enemy country had attacked U.S. territory. Then President Roosevelt also designated December 7 as the "National Shame Day" of the United States, the Congress passed the request to go to war with Japan on the same day, for this extremely important thing, the most happy people are no more than with british Prime Minister Churchill, the most unexpected is Hitler, when Churchill was really excited to cry out, and told the British people that the United States participated in World War II, Britain was saved, because during that time, britain's major cities and industrial centers, under the continuous bombardment of German warplanes, almost all turned into ruins. When the United States came in, the Germans would have to disperse their forces on the other side, so that they would have a chance to breathe.
Hitler was stunned when he learned of this news, and then he loudly scolded the Japanese, saying that they were short-sighted and fell into the trap of wild boars, because Hitler always remembered the lessons of the First World War, when Germany and Austria-Hungary swept through The European countries, but it was because of the large-scale military dispatch of the United States, which eventually led to Germany's defeat, after launching the Second World War, Hitler arrogantly believed that Germany's conquest of Europe and the destruction of the Soviet Union were not a problem, but the premise was that the United States could not enter the war as soon as possible. As early as 1939, when the war first broke out, Hitler ordered his subordinates not to provoke the United States, and although they could control their own people, they could not control their allies, and Japan had to make such a stupid mistake at the critical moment when they broke out into a large-scale war with the Soviet Union. The chain reaction of this sneak attack completely reversed the disadvantage of the anti-fascist camp and marked the full-scale outbreak of the Pacific War.
In fact, the contradiction between the United States and Japan has a long history, after the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan, as the victorious country, began to regard the United States as the greatest enemy, and when the Japanese army invaded China in 1937, their attitude toward the United States changed, on the one hand, they regarded the United States as an enemy, on the other hand, they could not do without the United States, Japan's barren natural resources, completely unable to maintain the huge strategic materials needed for the war, so oil, coal, rubber and other resources were all imported from the United States. More than 80 percent of Japan's share of real needs comes from the United States, which means that the United States holds the lifeblood of Japan, and once trade with Japan is stopped, Japan's war machine will stop functioning, and aircraft, artillery, and warships will become a pile of scrap iron. When the Japanese army expanded into Southeast Asia, the interests of the United States were damaged, and the United Kingdom and other countries really stopped trading with Japan, and Japan's oil storage was only enough for half a year.
Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, who studied at Harvard University in the United States, is very clear about the powerful industrial capabilities of the United States, japan alone is absolutely unable to provoke, once it is at war with it, the two are not on the same level, the result is naturally conceivable, but the domestic fanatics have convinced the emperor to fight with the United States, he can only harden his scalp, plus he himself and Japan, are full of "adventurous spirit" gamblers, so he hit the idea on Pearl Harbor, There is the U.S. Daping Ocean Fleet deployed there, as long as the preemptive annihilation, Japan will have the opportunity to take the lead in the war, and the United States wants to enter the war only in a year and a half, at that time, Japan will take China, the ally Germany will successfully defeat the Soviet Union, even if the United States enters the war will not change anything.
In order to make this sneak attack plan that could not fail, the Japanese army made many preparations in many aspects, and also used many tricks to confuse the United States, dispatched a large number of naval soldiers to visit Tokyo, made the US military think that they did not have any war preparations, and sent "peace envoys" to the United States for peace talks. In the end, more than 40 U.S. ships were severely damaged, and the Pearl Harbor base was almost reduced to rubble.
For this very successful sneak attack plan, the Japanese army fell into a carnival, did not expect that they could easily strike at the US fleet, and Yamamoto Fifty-six did not have any joy, he planned a sneak attack plan, the biggest goal of which was to sink the three aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor, they all went to sea for training, this is not too coincidental, carefully explored, the whole incident has too many doubts, after the end of World War II, the United States was busy competing with the Soviet Union for the position of world boss, Pearl Harbor gradually faded from people's attention, but for a new reason, the whole event was pushed to the cusp of a parting.
In 1995, the then President of the United States, Bill Clinton, received a letter signed to him by Ms. Helen Harman, revealing some unknown details of the Pearl Harbor incident that year, ms. Helen Harman claimed that these things were known from her father, who was a director of the logistics department of the US military, saying that before the outbreak of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had urgently convened a secret meeting attended by a very small number of officers, and he revealed a surprising news at the meeting. The American high-level has anticipated that japan is about to attack Pearl Harbor, which may cause a large number of casualties and property losses, so the officers attending the meeting, as soon as possible to prepare logisticians and a large number of medical supplies, gathered in the ports on the west coast of the United States, ready to set sail, he also particularly emphasized the prohibition of revealing the contents of the meeting to the outside world, even the military commander of Pearl Harbor, in the face of the confusion and doubts of many officials, Roosevelt explained that only some necessary losses were suffered. Hesitant Americans are willing to go to war, and they just need a reasonable reason to go to war. The appearance of this letter caused a huge sensation in the United States in an instant.
According to the records of the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. military support force did carry out a large-scale transfer of personnel and medical supplies two months before Pearl Harbor, and secretly received a large number of emergency supplies and additional supplies of drugs from the United States, and as many as 1505 medical personnel were transferred in advance, but because Ms. Helen Harman was not a party, and her father died in 1990, her letters and archival records are not enough evidence to show that Roosevelt already knew about the Japanese military plan. But Roosevelt's reaction to the Pearl Harbor incident is indeed somewhat suspicious, and after delivering the famous "national shame" speech the next day, his reaction can only be described by the word "calm", which makes people feel very abnormal, his national interests have suffered such a big loss, why can he remain so calm?
Previously, people have always thought that he is a manifestation of firm will and fearlessness in the face of danger, the United States has been pursuing participation in the handling of various affairs in the world, and what roosevelt has been pursuing is to participate with the minimum risk and cost, Roosevelt learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, behaved calmly and calmly, and casually said: "Our enemy has finally made a mistake", which is suspected by people, Roosevelt is a bloody, indulgent or forced the Japanese army to attack Pearl Harbor, in order to find an excuse to expand the sphere of influence of the United States, and the fact is indeed so. While other countries were devastated by war, the United States made a war fortune in World War II, achieved economic and power growth after the war, and replaced Britain as the new world hegemon.
Not only that, when the Japanese fighters raided Pearl Harbor, the US aircraft were neatly arranged on the main airfield runway, providing a great opportunity for the Japanese army to attack in an all-round way, the movement of the entire fighter was completely unreasonable, and after the end of the Japanese sneak attack, the US troops who suffered heavy losses recovered their combat strength at a speed that was somewhat abnormal, and those battleships that were sunk and destroyed were quickly salvaged, repaired in a very short period of time, and greatly modified, and the combat effectiveness rose a step higher than the original. To know such a large number of warship modifications, the complexity is unimaginable, the preparation of light drawings will take several months, plus the procurement and transportation of various equipment and materials, no half a year is not completed. But when the battleship was repaired and modified, all the required materials were readily available, including drawings, weapons, and radars, which were prepared in advance, as if the day had been anticipated.
The most suspicious thing is that just the night before the sneak attack, the US warships at the Pearl Harbor base found that there was a Japanese submarine in the nearby sea, after many warnings were ineffective, they fired multiple torpedoes to sink the Japanese submarine, that is, the enemy was so arrogant to attack, and did not cause the US military to be alert, on the day of the attack, the naval base did not do any precautions urgently, when the radar soldiers detected that there were a large number of unknown aircraft approaching, the superior did not pay too much attention to this, and thought that it was a friendly fighter. It was this last shred of information that could salvage the entire course of the war, or it was neglected by them.
In order to sneak attack Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army has been preparing for more than four months, during which several simulations and drills have been carried out, so long time will inevitably appear some flaws, just 4 days before Japan is ready to launch a sneak attack plan, China's famous code-breaking expert Chi Buzhou, deciphered a special secret telegram from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called The Ambassador to the United States Nomura, which did not say that Japan was going to launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, but Chi Buzhou guessed that this was the signal for Japan to start a war, according to the information previously mastered. He did two high-probability things that happened, one was on Sunday, and the other was that the war site was most likely at The Pearl Harbor base. Such an important news was quickly sent to the top level of the United States, and for unknown reasons, this news was not taken seriously by Washington, let alone warned the admirals of the naval base.
The most crucial point of Roosevelt's bitter meat plan is whether the United States has cracked the code of the Japanese army, the US intelligence department can be described as first-class in the world, and the Pearl Harbor base is also for prevention, the Japanese army attack is specially prepared, in fact, they have a very clear understanding of Japan's ambitions. Before the Japanese attack on the pearl, the intelligence department had already deciphered Japan's intelligence, but it was The Japanese diplomatic code that was deciphered, not the extremely important naval code, and from the deciphered intelligence, they only felt that the Japanese army was going to go to war with the United States, and as for when to go to war, where the first step would be to attack, there was no mention of it, after all, such important intelligence, Japanese diplomats, did not have the right to know the accurate situation.
When the Minister of Intelligence sent the results of this decipherment to the president's desk, Roosevelt only said lightly: I know, there is no follow-up in the back, and soon he secretly telegraphed Admiral Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, told him the information he knew, and asked him to transfer the three main aircraft carriers to the open sea for military training, and the other battleships all stayed in the harbor, waiting for the intelligence that the Japanese army was about to attack, and after the intelligence section chief learned about it, he rushed to report to marshall, the chief of the army, and looked for him everywhere. Knowing that after the End of the Japanese attack, they only met the chief of staff Marshall in Arlington Park, and he was leading his spotted dog to walk the dog, this series of accidents, as if to explain that the United States knew in advance, the Japanese sneak attack plan, and the three key figures of the Us side who could have the most war situation were not surprised by this matter, or even indifferent, and it was even more difficult for people to understand the reason. But political events are like this, not only pay attention to their superficial reasons, but carefully explore the essence below the surface.
Interestingly, more than seventy years later, american authoritative scholars want to know whether the whole incident is a bitter meat plan or whether Roosevelt is forcing Japan to go to war, flipping through all the travel schedules, personal manuscripts, diaries, and research materials before and after the Pearl Harbor incident, and has never found any evidence about the bitter meat plan that people say, and even a reliable witness can prove that the fact that the conspiracy theory is established does not exist, so the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor may be Roosevelt's self-directed bitter meat plan. It was only the evidence that was secretly destroyed, and it was most likely the overconfidence of the U.S. military and its lack of attention to Japanese ambitions that led to the burning of the war on the U.S. mainland.