Pearl_Harbor

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor Did FDR know' On Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy successfully launched a surprise air attack against United States Army, Navy, and other military installations on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Twenty-five ships of the American Pacific Fleet were either damaged or sent to the bottom of Pearl Harbor’s waters. Of the 394 aircraft stationed at Oahu, 188 were destroyed and another 159 were damaged. The Americans also suffered 2,403 servicemen and civilians killed, and an additional 1,178 wounded. The question still remains to whether or not the United States government had any previous knowledge of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. On “December 6, 1941, a message that was intercepted by the US navy is placed before Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sent from Tokyo to a Japanese Embassy in Washington, it was encoded in the top-level Japanese "Purple Code", it stated that the Japanese were going to end relations with the United States. Roosevelt, after reading the thirteen-page transmission said, This Means War." Although Roosevelt supposedly had knowledge of the Japan’s intentions, he did nothing to counteract or to inform others about the threat. “Some of our readers may be shocked by japanese, attack, war, intelligence, american, united, states, roosevelt, pearl, naval, one, harbor, stinnett, navy, military, japan, hawaii, against, surprise, message, government, fleet, been, about, knew, fdr, before, after, 1941, washington, stark, sent, received, radio, oil