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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Sep 24 2004, 02:26 AM
I think you can safely say that Roosevelt knew the Japanese were going to strike SOMEPLACE. The best minds in the U.S. military assumed it would be on Dougie out in the Phillipines.
Buff ... that one was a few years before my time. 
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Yup. I have old newspapers from before Pearl Harbor.
Headlines ...
Dec. 1, 1941 "FDR Rushes to capital. Far East Crisis Grave!"
Dec 3, 1941 "FDR asks Japan why troops sent to Indo-China"
Dec 5, 1941 "Action likely in Pacific" (US Blockade)
Dec 5, 1941 "Japs answer today; break near".
Dec 7, 1941 "FDR will send message to emperor on war crisis"
("Tokyo ponders blood or oil")
Dec 7, 1941 (Extra) "WAR! OAHU BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES"