PEARL HARBOR WARNINGS

PEARL HARBOR WARNINGS

1. For years, the final exam for Japanese naval cadets included the question:  “How would you attack Pearl Harbor?”
2. The night before the attack, the FBI intercepted a suspicious phone call from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy in Honolulu.
3. Early in the morning of the attack a minesweeper spotted a periscope in the harbor but did not report it.
4. Later, the USS Ward sank a Japanese mini-sub in the harbor, but it was not considered important when reported.
5. The incoming planes were picked up on an experimental radar set, but the officer who took the call blew it off.
6. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall thought something might happen so he sent a telegram warning the military leaders at Pearl Harbor.  However, the telegram was sent through regular Western Union communications and the delivery boy was in no big hurry to deliver it.  By the time the telegram arrived, the attack had begun.  Hover 158-9