Mystery of Pearl Harbor

How could the Japanese? This question is asked, and 68 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the day which raised the biggest questions in the military history of the United States.

Complete surprise, and immense destruction resulted in a “conspiracy theory”, whose adherents believe that President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about the impending attack but did nothing to lift the country into World War II.

Most historians do not believe that. Conspiracy theorists argue their conclusions that the U.S. had broken the secret code of the Japanese sailors, and therefore should have known that they are going to Hawaii. But it’s not quite true. In 1941, the American deciphering just made the first steps to decoding Japanese messages, so no information there could not remove.

A plausible explanation for the defeat of the United States – the attack was so unexpected, that was seen on the brink of unthinkable.

Second question: why the Americans did not see the Japanese planes on the radar?

They saw them, but do not understand what it was. Tested new radar, the military saw “something”, but decided that it was the American B-17, which is just expected.

Why the Japanese fleet crept so close? The Japanese had long prepared: knowing that the Americans were intercepting their communications, pretended that they simply train. When, after weeks of meaningless talks ships are in motion, U.S. analysts have decided that they leave in their waters, but they were sent to Hawaii.