The Pearl Harbor Secret: Why Roosevelt Undermined the U. S. Navy by Menzel Sewall;

Author:Menzel, Sewall;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 6176715
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC

THE IJN TARGETS PEARL HARBOR

From early January 1941 onwards, the Japanese consulate in Honolulu was sending messages to its home office in Tokyo. Using the J-series (J-18K8 or J-19) of enciphered Japanese diplomatic codes, a steady stream of reports as to the in-harbor strength of the Pacific Fleet poured forth. A March 10 report, photographed and finally translated by ONI in Washington on April 5, listed vessels observed, among others, inside Pearl Harbor: “Four battleships . . . five heavy cruisers . . . six light cruisers . . . Yorktown [aircraft carrier], 25 destroyers.”102

Some weeks later, an IJN ensign named Takeo Yoshikawa arrived at the consulate. Using the cover name of Tadashi Morimura, he immediately began monitoring the locations of Kimmel’s warships in the harbor, as well as those that had departed. He was trying to determine if a pattern of movement in terms of a time in and time out for each of the ships could be predicted. His job was relatively easy and he tended to blend in, since some 160,000 Japanese lived in Oahu. Often posing as a tourist and using taxies, tourist buses, aircraft, and boats, he roamed the high ground around Pearl City to look down upon the array of ships in the harbor. Picture postcards and souvenir maps also helped to flesh out details for his reports.103

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