
Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raid
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Pearl Harbor - A War Warning
The entire country expected that it would be at war with japan in a matter of days. The naval commander in hawaii, his name is husband kimmell, thought that the advent of war meant that he gets to go to war. And so your first priority is to make sure that you defend yourself. In other words, what yama modo thought was an asset, that is his going a long distance and surprising them, kimel regarded as an impossibility.
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