I will spare the details of the “date that will live in infamy” but I will say that I think there are many who have forgotten or choose to ignore history. As we saw in September 2001, similar incidents are still possible. Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the event, had lived in the United States and knew of the nation’s industrial potential even though it had been mired in depression for the previous decade. He feared he had “awakened a sleeping giant and given him great resolve.” He was right. Ultimately, the attack resulted in the destruction of Japan. I do wonder though what it takes for this nation to have great resolve today. In 1945, the US and its allies eliminated the threat of further attacks by those who attacked us to ensure that they could not do it again.Įveryone But Those In Charge Knew Pearl Harbor Was Vulnerable From the AirĪmericans had the answer. A widely publicized attack was launched during war games by US Admiral Harry Yarnell with an attack from aircraft carriers in 1932 in an exhibition designed to prove the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to attack. No one can say for sure if this demonstration by Admiral Yarnell or the published work by Bywater influenced Yamamoto at all. He was a pretty smart guy and apparently everyone except those who were supposed to know knew the weaknesses of Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto never said because he was killed on April 18, 1943 when the plane he was in was targeted and shot down.

That bit of intelligence was acted on by the United States. But had the folks in charge read the New York Times or visited their local library or recalled the demonstration put on by one of their own admirals, then perhaps the beginning of World War II might have been different and then who knows what might have happened had the initial attack on Pearl Harbor on this date in 1941 been unsuccessful. Just to add to the intrigue, Bywater died in London under mysterious circumstances in 1940, the year before Pearl Harbor was attacked. Weather Bottom Line: Well, half of the area got their first snow overnight. I had said it wouldn’t be much and the map above shows that the vast majority of the area got either nothing or just a dusting. But, take a look at the areas to the northwest of Louisville in Southern Indiana. A few spots pushed up toward an inch of snow. Now,the next system that I was more bullish on is not paying attention to my thinking as most of the data suggests that it will lift up from the southern plains northward to our west. Now,the GFS does want to give us some wrap around snow on Wednesday evening into Wednesday night. It’s been my experience that its pretty tough for us to get much snow when the parent low is all the way up in the Great Lakes. #Pearl harbor jippii game professional#.