[Homer_J_Simpson]

Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The index by authors at the bottom of Homer’s profile has been updated. The missing period is down to eight months, July 1939 to February 1940.

‘Axis Will Not Win’ – 2-3
Address is Spur to British Hopes – 3
Roosevelt Pictures Ireland under Reich – 3
Highlights of Address – 4
Throngs Desert Movies to Hear President; Leave Early to Sit at Home by Radio – 4
The International Situation – 4
President’s Call for Full Response on Defense – 5-7
‘Extremely Interesting,’ Nazi Comment on Speech – 7
Flames Leap High – 7-8
Urges Veterans Back All Aid to Britain – 8
Battle in Atlantic – 8-9
City Republicans Look for Shake-Up under New Leader – 10
Nazis Seen Extending Warfare to the Pacific; 15 Ships have Vanished in Asiatic Waters – 11
Axis Spurns Peace by U.S. Mediation – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 12

Editorials – 13-14
A Call to Action
The Greeks’ Deadliest Foe
Wagner Act Revision
The Hearst Art Sale
Oriental Drama
Surmises about Vichy

[BroJoeK]

Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

Today we see a report by someone named "Bloch" through Admiral Richardson at Pearl Harbor to Admiral Stark, CNO in Washington.

Who is this Bloch, and is this the report that got Richardson fired?

Please note Bloch's specific discussion of the threat of carrier born aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor, not the Philippines.

So the whole suggestion that somehow the Navy considered a carrier attack on Pearl Harbor "impossible" or "inconceivable" is just not right.

Obviously Bloch and Richardson considered the threat serious enough to require upgrading Pearl's defenses.