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They were miles north of Pearl Harbor. All was quiet. In interviews with Japanese publications and Los Angeles Times, Fuchida speaks of the solemn moment when he told Nagumo he was ready. On the flight deck, Fuchida accepted a special headband from his crew chief.

The eastern sky turned blue, yellow, then burning red. On his radio, he picked up a Honolulu jazz station and used it to fix his position. Helpfully, the station broadcast a weather report. I smiled. You couldn't expect to get such appropriate information at such a right time even if you planned it.

Through his binoculars, he saw ships, all in a row. He counted. All of the American battleships were there! I was moved to tears. Mizuki, to issue the report the first wave was attacking. Fuchida looked at his watch. It was a.

Others put the start of the attack at a. But no matter. The words reached Tokyo without a relay. Experts credit a fortuitous leap in radio waves. The toll of the attack was immediate and ghastly. In the sky, Cmdr.

Fuchida had the Arizona in sight. The fire pole flared up more than 1, meters above sea level. The New Zealanders had fought along the coast road to relieve Tobruk and end the eight-month siege. In Libya, the British Operation Crusader is now exactly two weeks old. The ultimate outcome remains very much in doubt, as the British had established a corridor to Tobruk early on 27 November but lost contact again on 1 December.

Today, Rommel sends armored forces the Geissler Advance Guard and the Knabe Advanced Guard battalion groups southeast to reestablish his pre-battle line and relieve some border strongpoints. This extends his forces and opens them up to British counter-attack because the Eighth Army tanks have been pushed back but not eliminated.

The 5th New Zealand Brigade is waiting for them along the Bardia road near Monastir, but contact is not made until 3 December. The 2nd New Zealand Division, meanwhile, links up again with the Tobruk garrison on the coast road, reflecting the chaotic nature of the North African situation in early December. However, depending upon Rommel's further moves, the New Zealanders may just be cut off along with Tobruk garrison.

Battle of the Atlantic : U Kptlt. An initial salvo of torpedoes misses. The tanker immediately picks up speed and begins zig-zagging. This time, U's two torpedoes hit the tanker, one in the stern and one amidships, and sink it within minutes. Toshihiro Minohara made a startling discovery while digging through the U. National Archives in College Park, Md.

While researching secret codes used prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years ago, the young Japanese American professor stumbled upon a document, declassified by the CIA about five years ago, that proved that Tokyo had succeeded in breaking the U. A few microfilmed documents, showing the Japanese translations of the telegrams, were attached. Those that remained were confiscated by the U. They are simple typed pages, written primarily in English, of U. Secretary of State Cordell Hull to various U.

The contents of the documents have long been known to historians the world over, and some even pop up on the Internet. But their appearance in the Japanese archives reveals that Tokyo knew what was going on in Washington in the weeks before Dec.

It also gave a date for the opening of hostilities…December 8th the 7th on the Pearl Harbor side of the International Date Line. The stage was set…unless the U. Comments RSS.

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