There is nothing wrong with updating earlier interpretations or with correcting erroneous judgments. Instead of carefully mapping their way through the records of the period, they hacked out a trail of Machiavellian conspiracy that twisted and turned and switched back on itself until it eventually led to the White House.
They ignored the historical background that is needed for an understanding of what happened in 1941. These detractors paid little attention to Japanese military intrusions in East Asia in the decade prior to Japan's attack on the United States. Roosevelt of having misled the public in regard to the coming of the war in the Pacific. In these circumstances, perhaps it was inevitable that certain critics of the President would emerge as "Pearl Harbor revisionists," eager to accuse Franklin D. There were no easy answers, no quickly forged consensus. How could it have happened? Who was to blame? What could be done to guard against surprise attacks in the future? People could scarcely believe the reports pouring out of their radios. As the news flashed from coast to coast, the bombing of Pearl Harbor mushroomed into a national disaster.
(National Archives at San Francisco ARC 296007)ĭecember 7, 1941, began as a typical Sunday for millions of Americans, but suddenly everything changed, irrevocably, in ways they would remember for the rest of their lives. The USS Oglala lies capsized after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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