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Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Preemptive Strike The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Author: Alan Armstrong
The untold story of a secret planthat would have prevented Pearl Harbor—and maybe even World War II. — Could a plan to bomb Japan and destroy Japanese supply lines, communications, and staging areas in China have averted the horrendous and devastating attack on Pearl Harbor? On July 23, 1941—some five months before Pearl Harbor—...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781592289134
ISBN-10: 1592289134
Publication Date: 6/1/2006
Pages: 312
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is an interesting book which seeks to prove a basic premise: Top officials of the U.S. government were secretly planning preemptive air strikes against Japanese shipping and cities long before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. proposed using 'volunteers,' The famous "Flying Tigers" group, as others under Chinese command to do this. It was hoped that the Japanese would then become so involved with the situation in China, Japan would then abandon its intention to conquer the rest of Southeast Asia and various Pacific countries.

The point is also made that due to at least one traitor in the top levels of Chinese government, the Japanese knew this and responded by speeding up their military actions, and this also led to the planning of the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.

The author refers to numerous papers within the archives of many of the participants.

As such, it is an interesting read and another possible view on what led to war.

I did find one mistake in the book, not an important one. The author refers to "Bataan Island" in the Philippines. Bataan is a peninsula of Luzon, not an island. And the author has the Japanese landing there first and then landing on Luzon. I'm not sure how that was overlooked.


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