A year after the end of the Second World War, the 79th Congress of the United States convened a joint committee in order to understand what went wrong and how it was that the two flag officers who commanded that installation were so unprepared for the Japanese attack – in light of the fact that the British and Americans had been reading the Japanese codes for some time.
You can read the decoded Japanese messages here…
Additional articles about the Pearl Harbor attack can be found here…
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1945 pearl harbor investigation articleHEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS 1945congressional hearings on the the Pearl Harbor AttackJOINT COMMITTEE on the Pearl Harbor sneak-attackJOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE on the Pearl Harbor sneak-attackrainbow five articlerainbow no 5 articleWPL-46 US Naval historyUS Admiral Harold Stark articleUS Admiral J.O. Richardson articleUS Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner articleUS Vice-Admiral Theodore S Wilkinson articleUS Admiral HK HEWITT articleUS Admiral Husband Kimmel articleUS General Walter C Short articleGeneral Walter C Short at pearl harbor investigationAdmiral Husband Kimmel at pearl harbor investigation
1945 pearl harbor investigation articleHEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS 1945congressional hearings on the the Pearl Harbor AttackJOINT COMMITTEE on the Pearl Harbor sneak-attackJOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE on the Pearl Harbor sneak-attackrainbow five articlerainbow no 5 articleWPL-46 US Naval historyUS Admiral Harold Stark articleUS Admiral J.O. Richardson articleUS Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner articleUS Vice-Admiral Theodore S Wilkinson articleUS Admiral HK HEWITT articleUS Admiral Husband Kimmel articleUS General Walter C Short articleGeneral Walter C Short at pearl harbor investigationAdmiral Husband Kimmel at pearl harbor investigation
