Pearl-Harbor.com provides links about the history of the location
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Pearl Harbor.com
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- Pearl Harbor.com features extensive information about the USS Arizona Memorial, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum, USS Missouri Memorial and George Elliot eyewitness account.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto participated in the second London Naval Conference of 1930 as a Naval Major-General and the 1934 London Naval Conference as a Naval Lieutenant-General, as the government felt that a career military specialist needed to accompany the diplomats to the arms limitations talks. Yamamoto was a strong proponent of naval aviation, and served as head of the Aeronautics Department before accepting a post as commander of the First Carrier Division. Yamamoto personally opposed the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the subsequent land war with China (1937), and the 1940 Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. As Deputy Navy Minister, he apologized to United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew for the bombing of the gunboat USS Panay in December 1937. These issues made him a target of assassination by pro-war militarists.
Sleeve insignia of Kaigun Taishō (Naval General); the rank Yamamoto held at the time of his death.Throughout 1938, many young army and naval officers began to speak publicly against Yamamoto and certain other Japanese admirals such as Yonai and Inouye for their strong opposition towards a Tripartite pact with Nazi Germany for reportedly being against "Japan's natural interests." Yamamoto himself received a steady stream of hate mail and death threats from Japanese nationalists but his reaction to the prospect of death by assassination was passive and accepting. The Admiral wrote:
To die for Emperor and Nation is the highest hope of a military man. After a brave hard fight the blossoms are scattered on the fighting field. But if a person wants to take a life instead, still the fighting man will go to eternity for Emperor and country. One man's life or death is a matter of no importance. All that matters is the Empire. As Confucius said, "They may crush cinnabar, yet they do not take away its color; one may burn a fragrant herb, yet it will not destroy the scent." They may destroy my body, yet they will not take away my will.
Why didn't Franklin D. Roosevelt stop the war at the time? Roosevelt knew the United States would eventually be going to war, he just didn't want America to look like the aggressing nation. He wanted to prolong America's involvement in Europe and Japan for as long as possible because the need to strengthen our forces. In 1938-1939 he started to strengthen the US military, namely the Navy and Army. I'm not implying that he wanted Pearl Harbor to happen but it did provide the necessary justification to get Congress to declare war on Japan. There also was a chance that had Pearl Harbor not happened the declaration of war may not have passed. Franklin D. Roosevelt had no idea that Japanese aircraft carriers were going to hit Pearl Harbor. He only found out on the afternoon of December 7th when the commanders of the U.S. forces reported that they were under attack. Luckily, all of the important naval vessels were out in the skies.
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