Preemptive strike : the secret plan that would have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor

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Preemptive strike : the secret plan that would have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor

Title remainder

the secret plan that would have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor

Statement of responsibility

Alan Armstrong ; foreword by Walter J. Boyne

Creator

• Armstrong, Alan, 1950-

Subject

• Pacific Area
• Military planning
• Präventivkrieg
• Geheimdokument
• Strategy
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
• World War (1939-1945)
• Pazifikkrieg (1941-1945)
• History
• United States -- History, Military -- 20th century
• Japan
• Preemptive attack (Military science)
• Preemptive attack (Military science)
• 1900 - 1999
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan
• Military history
• World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
• United States
• USA
• Strategy
• Militärische Planung
• Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Military campaigns

Genre

• Military history
• History

Language

eng

Summary

This book reveals the untold story of a secret plan that 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 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt endorsed a plan calling for the United States to provide China with 150 manned bombers and 350 fighter planes to wreak havoc on Japan's growing presence in China. "Joint Board Plan 335" had been proposed to Roosevelt and his cabinet by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Dr. T.V. Soong, China's special envoy to the United States; and Captain Claire Lee Chennault, a retired Air Corps pilot now in the employ of Chiang. Such a preemptive strike on Japanese interests had been under discussion for several months. Although initially blocked by General George C. Marshall, the plan was resurrected in the spring of 1941. So why, then, was it never employed? - Jacket flap

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/25

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

D769.2

LC item number

.A87 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography