Europe is damned lucky the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, otherwise we would have sat out the war until everyone, including the Brits, were speaking German.
“but, the Germans didn’t...”
“Let him go, he’s rolling”
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Please. Everybody knows the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
having been born on 07DEC51 i have visited and read a lot. there are eyewitness accounts of germans flying the japanese planes, a bomb going down the stack of ARIZONA as well as her being torpedoed.
i am still uncertain about a midget sub getting into the harbor and torpedoing OKLAHOMA.
i do not believe fdr and churchill knew about it and deliberately didn’t warn them. it was more an intelligence failure that looked more at intentions (what would we do) vs capability ( we didn’t put all our carriers in one group so no one else would).
i also believe there is a better than average chance we would not have declared war on japan if they had not attacked pearl harbor, bypassed the philippines and just attacked the colonial empires of france, holland, and britain.
Germany was not going to defeat Great Britain. That was established by October of 1940, well before Pearl Harbor.
I heard that it was the Panama Canal that the Germans bombed.