Author: Takeo Yoshikawa
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Assuming the alias "Morimura" and the role of secretary at the Japanese Consulate-General in Honolulu in March of 1941, Yoshikawa was able to travel all over the Hawaiian Islands to gather intelligence. His reporting during the nine months preceding the outbreak of the Pacific War would help pave the way for Japan's surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. Yoshikawa's memoirs--published here in English for the first time--offer a gripping spy story, personal confessions, and a Japanese eyewitness view of the war in the Pacific.
Author: Mark Harmon
Publisher: Harper Select
ISBN: 140033702X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger. Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include posing undercover as a newspaper reporter, translating wiretaps on the Japanese Consulate, and interrogating America's first captured POW of World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Takeo Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy operating as a junior diplomat with the consulate who is collecting vital information that goes straight to Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's gripping depiction of the world-changing cat and mouse games played between Japanese and US military intelligence agents (and a mercenary Nazi) in Hawaii before the outbreak of the second world war. Also caught in the upheaval are Honolulu's innocent residents - including Douglas Wada's father - who endure the war's anti-Japanese fervor and a cadre of intelligence professionals who must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same destructive mass internments as California. Ghosts of Honolulu depicts the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence and the need to define what is real and what only appears to be real.
Author: Mark Harmon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781400341276
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include posing undercover as a newspaper reporter, translating wiretaps on the Japanese Consulate, and interrogating America's first captured POW of World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Takeo Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy operating as a junior diplomat with the consulate who is collecting vital information that goes straight to Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's gripping depiction of the world-changing cat and mouse games played between Japanese and US military intelligence agents (and a mercenary Nazi) in Hawaii before the outbreak of the second world war. Also caught in the upheaval are Honolulu's innocent residents--including Douglas Wada's father--who endure the war's anti-Japanese fervor and a cadre of intelligence professionals who must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same destructive mass internments as California. Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger. Ghosts of Honolulu depicts the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence and the need to define what is real and what only appears to be real.
Author: Takuma Melber
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 150953721X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack claims the lives of over 2,400 American soldiers, sinks or damages 18 ships and destroys nearly 350 aircraft. The US Congress declares war on Japan the following day. In this vivid and lively book, Takuma Melber breathes new life into the dramatic events that unfolded before, during and after Pearl Harbor by putting the perspective of the Japanese attackers at the centre of his account. This is the dimension commonly missing in most other histories of Pearl Harbor, and it gives Melber the opportunity to provide a fuller, more definitive and authoritative account of the battle, its background and its consequences. Melber sheds new light on the long negotiations that went on between the Japanese and Americans in 1941, and the confusion and argument among the Japanese political and military elite. He shows how US intelligence and military leaders in Washington failed to interpret correctly the information they had and to draw the necessary conclusions about the Japanese war intentions in advance of the attack. His account of the battle itself is informed by the latest research and benefits from including the planning and post-raid assessment by the Japanese commanders. His account also covers the second raid in March 1942 by two long-range seaplanes which was intended to destroy the shipyards so that ships damaged in the initial attack could not be repaired. This balanced and thoroughly researched book deepens our understanding of the battle that precipitated America’s entry into the war and it will appeal to anyone interested in World War II and military history.
Author: John Koster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596983299
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor, author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
Author: thomas francis
Publisher: BookSummaryGr
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Ghosts of Honolulu Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor" by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. is a non-fiction book that delves into the world of espionage in Hawaii during World War II. The book highlights the work of the precursor to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in combating Japanese spies. A significant figure in the narrative is Douglas Wada, the only Japanese-American counterintelligence agent in Hawaii at the time. Wada's task was to monitor the local Japanese population, although he and his colleagues primarily focused on the Japanese consular agents as the real spies. The book describes the covert activities and challenges faced by Wada and his team, especially after the Pearl Harbor attack, which was facilitated by information from a spy in the Honolulu consulate. Grab a copy and learn more!
Author: Robert Stinnett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743201292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.
Author: Edward C. Raymer
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. The divers have been given a Herculean task: rescue the sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific fleet. Now for the first time, the chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations, Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer, USN (Ret.), tells the whole story of the desperate attempts to save crewmembers caught inside their sinking ships. Descent into Darkness is the only book available that describes the raising and salvage operations of sunken battleships following the December 7th attack. Once Raymer and his crew of divers entered the interiors of the sunken shipwrecks—attempting untested and potentially deadly diving techniques—they experienced a world of total blackness, unable to see even the faceplates of their helmets. By memorizing the ships’ blueprints and using their sense of touch, the divers groped their way hundreds of feet inside the sunken vessels to make repairs and salvage vital war material. The divers learned how to cope with such unseen dangers as falling objects, sharks, the eerie presence of floating human bodies, and the constant threat of Japanese attacks from above. Though many of these divers were killed or seriously injured during the wartime salvage operations, on the whole they had great success performing what seemed to be impossible jobs. Among their credits, Raymer’s crew raised the sunken battleships West Virginia, Nevada, and California. After Pearl Harbor they moved on to other crucial salvage work off Guadalcanal and the sites of other great sea battles.
Author: Roberta Wohlstetter
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804705981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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This account of the Pearl Harbor attack denies that the lack of preparation resulted from military negligence or a political plot
Author: Ray Merriam
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781470121372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Merriam Press Military Monograph 91. Fourth Edition (February 2012). A compilation of 39 articles and documents on the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Contents: *Japanese Battle Order for Pearl Harbor Attack; *United States Note to Japan: 26 November 1941; *Out of the Loop: Japan's Envoys Unaware of Pearl Harbor Attack; *War Warnings: Deliberately Confused Messages; *U.S.S. Ward's Attack on a Japanese Midget Submarine at Pearl Harbor; *The Attack on Pearl Harbor; *A Marine's View from Kaneohe NAS; *A Sailor's View from Battleship Row; *A Sailor's View from the U.S.S. Tangier; *A Sailor's View from the U.S.S. Vestal; *A Sailor's View from the U.S.S. Sumner; *A Sailor's View from Ford Island NAS; *U.S.S. Arizona Memorial; *Churchill: "Roosevelt Did Know"; *56th Commemoration of the Pearl Harbor Attack; *57th Commemoration of the Pearl Harbor Attack; *The Road to Pearl Harbor; *The Battle of Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941: "Day of Infamy"; *Chronology of the Pearl Harbor Attack; *Pearl Harbor Heroes: George Welsh and Ken Taylor; *Ships Present at Pearl Harbor; *Bombs Over Pearl Harbor: A Family Affair; *Advancement of Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General Short; *Pearl Harbor Bibliography; *Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy: Takeo Yoshikawa; *Pearl Harbor: The Second Japanese Attack; *Pearl Harbor's Hero with a Hangover; *The St. Louis at Pearl Harbor; *"0745-Rig for Church": A Chaplain at Pearl Harbor; *Mitsuo Fuchida; *Japanese Spy at Pearl Harbor; *Pearl Harbor: Up Close and Very Personal; *Eyewitness Gives Vivid Description of Nippon Raid on Pearl Harbor; *Flying into the Hell of Pearl Harbor; *The Mystery of Midget D: Crew of Sunken Japanese Submarine Never Found; *"We Were There": Pearl Harbor Survivors; *Did You Know; *Pearl Harbor Photo Album; *91 photos; *1 drawing; *3 maps.
