Pearl Harbor: Five Things Most People Don't Know About the Attack on December 7, 1941
Added 2025-12-07 19:26:19 +0000 UTCIn this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses five fact and issues most do not know about the Japanese attack on Hawaii and Pearl Harbor
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Interesting Sal, thanks.
John Frewer
2025-12-08 04:18:23 +0000 UTCFive stars, Sal.
Deanna Gates
2025-12-08 02:36:31 +0000 UTCOne of the greatest ironies. The same with the Italians in Libya.
Sal Mercogliano
2025-12-08 01:10:48 +0000 UTCWOW
Bill Nelson
2025-12-08 00:59:32 +0000 UTCI did like it! I didn’t know about the IJN’s ability to replenish under way or about the USN’s ignorance of it; this makes the decision to position a fleet on Hawaii seem sensible. I am often struck by the odd fact that throughout the build up to the war in the Pacific and throughout the war, the Japanese Army was literally standing on the Da Qing oilfield in Manchuria. It was discovered by the People’s Republic in 1950 and made China self sufficient in oil up to 1996.
Andrew Craig-Bennett
2025-12-07 20:35:14 +0000 UTCThanks.
Richard
2025-12-07 19:53:36 +0000 UTC
