PEARL HARBORS TRAGEDY
... roosevelt ,president of the united states,recived a recived a message intercepted by the u.s navy.sent from tokyo,japan to the japanese embasy in washington, the message was encrypted in top level japanese "purple code".but that was no problem.the americans had cracked that code long before that.it was im prtant that the president see the message right away because it revealed that the japanese,under the heavy pressure of western economic sanctions were terminating relations with the united states.roosevelt read the thirteen part transmission ,looked up and announced,"this means war"at daw the next morning a japanese a japanese squadrin bombed pearl harbor and the surprise attack and the surprise attack was just that,a complete surprise.there were 2,575 american servicemen who died it my not have b...