Pearl Harbor

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Multiple committees examined the country’s lack of preparedness preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations in 1941.

From Salon

Some elements of the account remain frustratingly unclear—most notably, whether the Kuehns’ spying was a practical aid to Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was re-elected to Congress in 1941 and argued against America joining the fight in World War II. But the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor later that year galvanized the country.

From The Wall Street Journal

He informed Hitler of his fears a week before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and may have repeated the message when he visited Hitler’s field headquarters near Rastenburg in February 1942.

From The Wall Street Journal