Marching Orders (eBook, ePUB)
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Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | Open Road Media (Lee, Bruce) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
"We might have possessed the genius to break the Purple code, but in 1941 we didn´t have the brains to know what to do with it." —Henry C. Clausen, special investigator for secretary of war Henry L. Stimson On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, assured his staff that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. The next morning, Japanese carriers steamed toward Hawaii to launch one of the most devastating surprise attacks in the history of war, proving the admiral disastrously wrong. Immediately, an investigation began into how the American military could have been caught so unaware. The results of the initial investigation failed to implicate who was responsible for this intelligence debacle. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, realizing that high-ranking members of the military had provided false testimony, decided to reopen the investigation by bringing in an unknown major...
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