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Pearl Harbor


But the decoded war declaration did not reach Kimmel and Short until the morning, after the attack had begun. .
             Marshall and Stark later testified that the message about the attack was not sent to Kimmel and Short because the commanders in Hawaii had received so many intercepted Japanese messages that another one "would simply confuse them." The military covered up Marshall and Stark's case and dropped their findings while the public thought that the case had been solved. Kimmel and Short were the scapegoats; they were publicly "crucified" and they were denied the open hearings that they had requested. One of the Roberts Commission panelists, Admiral William Standly, called Robert's performance, "Crooked as a snake.".
             There were eight investigations of Pearl Harbor that took place. The most stunning was a "joint House-Senate probe" that reiterated the Roberts Commission findings. At the hearings, Marshall and Stark testified that they could not remember where they were the night the declaration came. But, a close friend of Knox, the secretary of the Navy, later revealed that Knox, Stark, and Marshall spent most of that night in the White House with Roosevelt, waiting for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the opportunity for America to join World War II. .
             There were many warnings that the commander at Pearl Harbor received but the "Winds Code" was perhaps the most shocking. The winds code was an earlier transmission that they had intercepted that turned out to be a fake weather report broadcast on a Japanese short-wave station. The words higashi no kaze ame (east wind, rain) were heard on the transmission and they already knew that this was the Japanese code for war with the United States. The top U.S. military officials tried to destroy any evidence of this message and to deny that the "winds" message existed. Three days before the attack, Australian intelligence spotted a Japanese fleet of aircraft carriers heading for Hawaii.


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