Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett

Author:Robert Stinnett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Military, Fiction, World War II, History
ISBN: 9780743200370
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

Radio silence was ignored as more Japanese naval broadcasts hit the airwaves. The first military intercept that specified Pearl Harbor as the target came from Japan’s highest naval commander, Admiral Osami Nagano, Chief of the Imperial Navy General Headquarters. He breached security in a radio broadcast and disclosed that a Japanese carrier strike force would attack Hawaii. The broadcast was beamed from Tokyo to the communications officer of the Eleventh Air Fleet, a powerful naval air command based on Formosa, composed of 500 bombers and fighters that had been massed for an aerial attack on General MacArthur’s command in the Philippines and other objectives in Southeast Asia.

Nagano’s broadcast was first publicly disclosed in a postwar article written by Commander Koiichi Shimada, an air officer of the Eleventh Air Fleet, who wrote that his command received a radio dispatch from Imperial General Headquarters packed with highly secret information. The message said:

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