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Re: [LoGH] Pearl Harbor (off-topic about war movies)

Lee Thompson (thompsonl@logh.net)
Tue, 29 May 2001 11:23:23 -0700


On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:05:15, you wrote:

>
>>Ummm, there WERE Japanese that WERE acting as spies.  There were a few
>>Japanese-American spies, but as the film did point out the Pearl Harbor
>>leadership were unrealisitically worried about Japanese saboteurs and
>>ironically deployed in an easy-to-destroy configuration.
>
>We simply didn't expect the Japanese to attack Hawai.  guam, Wake Island, 
>the Philippines, and even alaska were easier to reach targets.

Interestingly enough, we later did this to the Germans by attacking Normandy ;)


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Lee Thompson               
thompsonl@logh.net