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Thread #34769   Message #473209
Posted By: DougR
30-May-01 - 02:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pearl Harbor
Subject: RE: BS: Pearl Harbor
I heard, Walrus, that some dialogue was changed for the Japanese and European audiences. I don't know that for a fact.

L.H. I'm not sure I agree with you about what was known, and what was not. It would seem to me, that since our fleet was stationed at Pearl, the Administration should have shown more interest in ensuring that it was on full alert, rather than concern itself about the other locations you suggest might have been hit.

I did considerable research on the subject twenty years ago, thinking that I might wish to develop a treatment for a possible movie. I don't have total recall of all I read, but I believe that the U. S. had cracked the Japanese code long before Pearl Harbor was attacked. If Roosevelt and company did not know the raid was coming, they certainly had enough information to available to put the place on full alert.

Also, it is a matter record that vital information Washington knew was not shared with Admiral Kimmel and General Short, Commanders of the Navy and the Army at Pearl Harbor and it should have been.

DougR