--- Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dominic Fox wrote:
>
> >Andrew Hodges, who wrote a very good biography of
> Alan Turing, told me
> >that as far as he knew this one was a myth. I think
> the
> >Roosevelt/Pearl Harbour theory has been called into
> question as well,
> >but I'm not sufficiently familiar with either the
> terms or the content
> >of the debate to elaborate.
> >
> >
> Dominic, I can only apply the logic of an atrophying
> brain to this. How
> does anyone not notice a huge contingent of the
> Japanese Navy--an
> armada, if you like--traveling for a week halfway
> across the Pacific
> Ocean?
How did the Germans not notice the largest armada in
the history of the world sitting in the dinky English
channel off Normandy June 5 1944? That's a bigger
question if you ask me.
The Pacfic Ocean is enormous and there were no long
range reconnaisance planes. Even when the US was
actively searching for Japanese fleets that size (and
vice versa) they were sometimes hard to find (Midway).
As for the aircraft carriers, etc., if all one wanted
was a casus belli then any attack with a significant
number of casualties would have done the job and the
US Navy would have made damn sure the more modern
battleships were out of Pearl.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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