 | Mark Skinner Watson - World War, 1939-1945 - 1950 - 588 pages
...Applying this lesson to the situation at Pearl Harbor, therefore, Secretary K.nox wrote to Mr. Stimson: "If war eventuates with Japan it is believed easily...upon the Fleet or the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor." 51 Six types of danger were prophetically envisaged "in their order of importance and probability."... | |
 | George Carroll Dyer - World War, 1939-1945 - 1972 - 630 pages
...and signed by the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of War, which said in the first paragraph: If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily...upon the Fleet or the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor." When the President made the decision that on 26 July 1941 the United States would impose economic sanctions... | |
 | Timothy B. Benford - History - 2001 - 256 pages
...and by reports from abroad of successful bombing and torpedo plane attacks on ships while in bases. If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily...upon the fleet or the naval base at Pearl Harbor... In my opinion the inherent possibilities of a major disaster to the fleet or naval base warrant taking... | |
 | Jack Lambert Norman Polmar - Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 - 264 pages
...command when he received a February warning from Secretary of War Stimson. It said in part: ". . . If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily...be initiated by a surprise attack upon the fleet or naval base at Pearl Harbor." 5 Among the periodic messages Admiral Stark sent to Kimmel was this one... | |
 | Alan Schom - Pacific Area - 2004 - 604 pages
...January 1941, Turner had submitted a report through CNO Stark for Roosevelt in which he stated that "it is believed easily possible that hostilities would be initiated by a surprise [Japanese] attack upon the Fleet or the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor."40 Turner of course realized that... | |
 | Bradley Lightbody - History, Modern - 2004 - 312 pages
...January 1941 when the Secretary for the Navy Frank Knox warned that if war did break out with Japan 'hostilities would be initiated by a surprise attack upon the Fleet or the naval base at Pearl Harbor'.2 His warning was discounted as improbable. Japan was 3,400 miles distant. For the military... | |
 | Merrel Clubb - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 268 pages
...Secretary of War Henry Stimson that if a war did develop with Japan, it might very well begin with "a surprise attack upon the fleet or the naval base at Pearl Harbor" (quoted in Clausen, 75). 16. The dispatch to MacArthur read as follows: "JAPANESE FUTURE ACTION UNPREDICTABLE... | |
 | Stephanie Fitzgerald - Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 - 2006 - 100 pages
...Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson with a warning — and an opinion — that would prove to be correct: If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily...upon the Fleet or the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. 32 It makes sense, then, that in November, as peace talks were breaking down, the US Navy Department... | |
 | 2003 - 304 pages
...reports from abroad of successful bombing and torpedo plane attacks on ships while in bases." Knox added: "If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily...would be initiated by a surprise attack upon the fleet and the naval base at Pearl Harbor." Not only had the War Department been building up forces in Hawaii,... | |
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If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily possible that hostilities would be initiated by a surprise attack upon the Fleet or the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. 