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Private Notes
December 7th, 1941 is one of the most infamous dates in history but it's not the full story of how and why these two Pacific Empires of Japan and the US came to blows. Instead, the Path to Pearl Harbor was a crooked one, fraught with tense meetings, cultural misunderstandings, and dismissed warnings that led us into WWII.
Yangtze River, December 12th, 1937
A Japanese dive bomber lets its payload go, smashing into the USS Panay and sinking the vessel filled with evacuated civilians from china and journalists. A single event that set Japan on a collision course with the United States...
President Roosevelt's attempts at deterring Japan from invading Northern French Indochina through diplomatic and congressional moves only drove Japan closer to war with the United States. However, these unfriendly acts were nothing compared to the find in 1940. Where German troops boarded a merchant's vessel and found 15 bags of Top Secret mail meant for the British command. Mail that was directly forwarded to Toyko to fuel their plans of invasion.
Honolulu Hawaii April 12th 1941
The new vice consul at Japan's consulate general in Honolulu is none other than an Imperial Japanese naval intelligence officer. One who is a specialist in US Naval warships. He's been monitoring Pearl Harbor and reporting everything he's seen back to Tokyo. Completely unaware that the American Military has been listening...
The Japanese are working on peace with the U.S. They will deliver two proposals to President Roosevelt hoping to avoid war but American code breakers have already intercepted their proposals. Finding requests for peace but military positions set for war. It was clear the Japanese were preparing for something...
Japanese fleets are moving into southeast Asia and an attack is imminent. News of this gave President Roosevelt the fuel he needed to side with the British in the war but this only begins a series of misses and communication errors that fail to inform Hawaii, how to avoid the Pearl Harbor attack.
