Fun fact of the day:
The Japs were in surrender talks 1943, but had to agree they started the war.
The Japanese fleet was guarding the invasion of Thailand and Malaya and had no role in the destruction of Pearl Harbor.
As the war progressed the Americans became more and more desperate, they had to get the Japs to say they started the war.
That's what the nukes were for, to force the Japs into saying they started the war.
BTW The ships at Pearl harbor were sunk by broadsides from USS Colorado,
you will never understand world politics, until you understand the role opium plays….
Do you really want to know why FDR bombed Pearl Harbor?
The British East India Company took control of Bengal and Bihar, the opium-growing districts of India, and their ships dominate the opium trade out of Calcutta to China.
Then, around the 1820's, they found a new way of making money from the opium, Morphine, and this was the basis of the pharmaceutical industry.
The two big players, E. Merck & Company of Darmstadt, Germany, begins commercial manufacturing of morphine, and Jardine-Matheson & Company of London, who now owned the "bengal conssesesion", the right to buy all the west Indian opium production.
(Sassoon bought the rights to the Shar Valley Opium, Afghanistan, and made another fourtune)
Then, in 1895, The Bayer Company of Elberfeld, Germany, finds that diluting morphine with acetyls produces a drug without the common morphine side effects. Bayer begins production of diacetylmorphine and coins the name "heroin."
Now they didn't need to ship opium to china, and Jardine-Matheson had a complete monopoly on the Bengal opium.
At the same time, however, opium production ramped up in Laos and Burma, and because of the British monopoly, they had to find a new way to ship the product to China.
So they took it overland, from Burma to Hanoi, in what was then, French Indochina. This was of course, the first leg, of what came to be known as the "Ho Chi Minh trail".
Now the French took over the opium trade, it was a short hop from Hanoi to Hongkong, and profits soared.
Seeing the growing trade with China, around 1820?, two Massachusetts families, the Delanos and the Perkins' were drawn into the China trade along with John Jacob Astor, selling furs and ginseng, that they sourced from Daniel Boone.
Eventually the furs ran out, the ginseng was inferior and they had to find another product to sell to china, and that was Turkish opium. By 1818, Americans were, by some estimates, smuggling as much as a third of all the opium consumed in China
As word of the huge profits spread, the leading families with names like Astor, Cabot, Peabody, Brown, Archer, Hathaway, Webster, Delano, Coolidge, Forbes, Russell, Perkins, Bryant, otherwise known as Boston Brahmins, all joined in the opium trade to China.
In 1857, Warren Delano Jr. lost much of his wealth in a financial panic, so, like many other American speculators before him, he returned to the opium trade and quickly rebuilt his fortune. It was at his palatial estate, Algonac, in New York, that Franklin D. Roosevelt's parents were married.
This was during the Civil War, and Delano saw the need for opium as a pain killer for the wounded troops. In the American Civil War, the Union Army used 175,000 lb (80,000 kg) of opium tincture and powder and about 500,000 opium pills. Most likely the South used the same. (it may also transpire the war was constructed to provide a solid soruce of revenue; the families that profited were the same ones in the Senate)
This is how the US military became involved in the drug trafficking business; why use ports and pesky customs duties, when you can use US military bases, instead? Why use your own ships, the famous "Clipper Ships", and crews, when you can just use military ships to move the opium, completely unnoticed? From this point on, the US military will be wholly complicit in the drug trafficking business.
As we saw earlier, the French were also making huge profits from the opium trade, and the aristocrats that fled France to avoid the guillotine moved to Boston; one of those families was the Bouvier Family, Jackie Kennedys family. The French not only smuggled the opium from Hanoi to China, they also set up a huge business shipping opium to the USA, some legal, to Johnson and Johnson, some not so legal.
This trade in opium, became known as "the French Connection", and for about 100 years the Boston families made enormous fortunes.
As time progressed, long range flight became possible, and a US company called PanAm, set up the "clipper class" to China, flying boats from San Francisco, to Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Philippines to Indochina and China. Now it only took a couple of weeks to get the opium to the US, and profits boomed.
Then, in 1940, the Japanese occupied French Indochina, and cut the supply of opium from Burma to Hanoi, and FDR suddenly became concerned with Japanese atrocities committed in China. The Japanese, having seen the devestation opium addiction had caused, and thinking it was Brittish opium, burned it all.
The Japanese, being noble, and thinking they were allies to the US, informed the US of their impending invasion of British territories in the east, and, in what can only be described as the most audacious act of treachery ever seen, the US decided to use this as the basis of the false flag attack on Pearl Harbor.
FDR wanted his opium back….
1: USS California. California was struck by a modified 16-inch (410 mm) armor-piercing shell
2: USS Maryland. Maryland was struck by two 16in armor-piercing bombs which detonated low on her hull
3: USS Oklahoma.
4: USS Tennessee. both bombs were converted large-caliber 16in naval shells
5: USS West Virginia. Hit with a pair of 16 in (410 mm) armor-piercing shells that had been converted into bombs.
6: USS Arizona. hit by a modified 16-inch (410 mm) shell.
7: USS Nevada.
8: USS Pennsylvania.
USS Colorado was supposed to be in Bremerton, that day, but they lied about it.
"With her overhaul completed, the Colorado was scheduled to depart 13 November and arrive at Pearl Harbor to relieve the West Virginia on the 29th, more than a week before the Japanese attack."
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1976/december/uss-colorado-other-battleship
Vestal was also struck by 2 16in shells, oops, I mean bombs.
Does this look like a naval salvo, or jap bombs?
http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/AR4/PearlHarborDamageReportPlateI.jpg
http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/AR4/PearlHarborDamageReport.html
>"With her overhaul completed, the Colorado was scheduled to depart 13 November and arrive at Pearl Harbor to relieve the West Virginia on the 29th, more than a week before the Japanese attack."
>https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1976/december/uss-colorado-other-battleship
Bombs you say?
have you bothered to look at these bombs?
How much did they weigh?
Could a jap plane carry such a weight?
Were these "bombs" ever used anywhere else?
Did they find any examples of these bombs anywhere?
The truth is out there, you just have to look for it.
https://www.bulletpicker.com/pdf/OP-1667-V1.pdf
Pearl Harbor
So the Japs were after the carriers, but didn't know they were there or not?
Ever heard of Commercial Pacific Cable Company?
Commercial Pacific Cable Company was founded in 1901, and ceased operations in October 1951. It provided the first direct telegraph route from America to the Philippines, China, and Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Pacific_Cable_Company
No shit, eh The japs could have just asked any of the 20,000 Japs living there, if they wanted to know…..
The cable is on this map, from Nat Geo 1921
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Seas_Mandate
Correct, but the question is WHEN did she return to Bremerton.
Given she had her gun control systems upgraded, she probably wanted to test them out right?
Where?
Ever heard of Kaho’olawe
The US army bought the island for gunnery exercise, and this is where Colorado was, trying out her guns.
Its 2 hours south west of Pearl harbor.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/kahoolawe-island-us-navy
PLAUSABLE DENIABILITY
Did you Know?
that before the war the Japs and the US were allies?
Because they were allies, there were no export restrictions.
So, ummm . where did the Japs get the Airplanes from?
Like to hazard a Guess? Mr super researcher?
The US built them, exported them.
Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero
Designed by North American Aviation
Export variant 6
Manufactured by Mitsubishi
Model 3