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KC

On 12/11/2014 12:42 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:04:02 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

We had broken the Japanese codes and knew it was coming. Probably
didn't know the exact date and time, but we knew it was Pearl Harbor.

There were people in DC who knew the exact time. They based it on the
messages to the Japanese embassy of when they were supposed to deliver
the declaration of war to the US government.
We stalled the Japanese ambassador long enough to make it a "surprise
attack".
The delegation was sitting in Cordell Hull's waiting room cooling
their heels until DC got the news from Hawaii.

Wow, I am really glad my dad isn't around to hear this... All of his
brothers were involved as well as he, one of them was a plumber in New
Mexico with the Manhattan Project...