Chapter 19 novelist predicted pearl harbor plot

A turning point in World War II was the attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States. On December 7, 1941, Japan sent a death squad to attack Pearl Harbor, the US naval base. reached an unprecedented scale. Pearl Harbor is not only an important port of the United States on the Hawaiian Islands, but also the largest and best-equipped safe port of call in the Pacific Ocean.This is the US naval base, and it is also a forbidden area. Anyone who trespasses without authorization will inevitably take great risks.But the Japanese don't think so. On November 26, 1941, the Japanese Navy launched an unprecedented "military exercise".A Japanese fleet consisting of 6 aircraft carriers as the main force, including 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers and 3 submarines, sailed to Pearl Harbor under unified command.The Japanese Navy deliberately chose a route that looked quite stealthy to avoid being detected by American radar.At the same time, in order to achieve its goals, Japan even turned off its communication equipment during the march.The only thing they wanted to do was attack Pearl Harbor.

On December 7, the aircraft on the aircraft carrier finally received the order to take off, and even the underwater submarine secretly came near Pearl Harbor to wait for the backup order.Japan's plan is that this sneak attack must be resolved quickly, using lightning-style three-dimensional attacks as the main method to destroy Pearl Harbor in the shortest possible time. Later facts proved that the Japanese death squads did this task very well.They dropped a total of 144 tons of explosives in less than two hours and sank more than 40 US ships of various types, including 4 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 2 destroyers and oil tankers. 1 ship; heavily damaged 3 battleships, 2 cruisers, and 2 destroyers; damaged 1 heavy cruiser, 4 light cruisers, 1 destroyer, and 5 auxiliary ships.The only luck is that the three aircraft carriers that were originally docked in Pearl Harbor were not there, otherwise, the U.S. Navy would be defeated by Japan.

At the same time, the Japanese army also destroyed 265 American aircraft and caused thousands of casualties.After the smoke of the battle was over, there were broken arms and limbs everywhere on Pearl Harbor, which was originally singing and dancing.This raid caused the US Pacific Navy, which was originally quite powerful, to almost completely lose its combat effectiveness.In contrast, the Japanese army had only 29 aircraft destroyed, 70 damaged, 55 pilots killed, 5 pocket submarines destroyed, and 1 pocket submarine captured. This is the whole result of the Pearl Harbor incident that year. Obviously, the US military was angered by the Japanese and joined the Pacific battlefield of World War II.And this raid also gave the Japanese complete control over the Pacific Ocean.

However, doubts arose.At that time, the various instruments of the United States were more advanced than those of Japan. Why didn't they detect that Japan's aircraft carriers, planes and submarines were already lurking around them?And Japan's launch of this raid was not without warning. Commodore Mitchell of the U.S. Navy once accurately predicted that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor. He said that the Japanese would start to act at 8 o'clock on December 7, 1941.According to historical records, the time when the Japanese launched a sneak attack was only 20 minutes later than the predicted time.

During this period, the secret communication of the Japanese was once intercepted and successfully deciphered by the Kuomintang military commanders. What is even more surprising is that when the top officials of the Kuomintang fed back this news to the United States, the other party did not pay attention to it at all. A vital piece of information. Before the Japanese launched a sneak attack, there was an extremely weird newspaper in the United States, and a report in this newspaper also successfully hit the Pearl Harbor incident. What is even more incredible is the prediction and judgment in a work "The Great Pacific War" written by the famous American novelist Homan Lai decades before the Pearl Harbor incident, and the way the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor It was exactly the same, even the Japanese marching route was the same.

And this book had a very big influence in Japan.Especially when this book was just published in Japan, Yamamoto Fifty-Six, the main person in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, had read it for the first time.Later, he also suggested that the Japanese Navy should have a copy, and asked his subordinates to study and understand the strategies and tactics in it. Not only must they absorb and digest, but also apply what they have learned, so that they can apply the theories in the book to the battlefield with live ammunition. go. Contrary to the popularity it received in Japan, the book received a cold reception in the United States.Americans didn't care about the Pacific War at all. They just wanted to make a fortune from the war, not get involved in the war.Even Homan Lai's military predictions were regarded as nonsense by US officials.Homan Laiben thought that his high-spirited speeches on the Pacific War would attract enough attention, but he didn't expect to be ridiculed in the end, and he only fell into depression in the end.

However, just one year after Homan Lai's death, his prophecy came true. Although the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor and finally caused a commotion for themselves, the victory at this moment is obvious to all.In the following six months, the United States has not posed a sufficient threat to Japan on the Pacific battlefield.In exchange for half a year's strategic deployment in just two hours, this is a good deal no matter how you look at it. The Americans did receive a lot of signs before the Pearl Harbor incident but did nothing. Many Japanese military experts and historians said that this was a big gimmick that the Americans deliberately created for themselves to join the war. Otherwise, The three most heavyweight aircraft carriers will not leave Pearl Harbor out of thin air.They believe that this is not a simple coincidence, but that the U.S. government regards Pearl Harbor as a living target, just to get an excuse to join the war by beating dogs with meat buns.

In any case, the prophecy of the novelist at the beginning came true in the end.The Americans can only be blamed for being conceited and contemptuous of this book, thus causing this serious injury to themselves.