When John set off with a dozen officers of the 82nd Division from the temporary headquarters of the Third Army outside New Orleans and returned to Alexandria. In distant Honolulu, Admiral Hasbend-Kimmel and Vice Admiral Short, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Vice Admiral Short, commander of the Hawaiian Army, are conducting their bi-weekly golf gathering.

Unlike MacArthur and Hart (commander of the U.S. Asian Fleet), who did not like each other, as the leaders of the Hawaiian garrison, Kimmel and Short got along fairly well for the past six months (Kimmel came to Hawaii on February 1, 1941, and Short came to Hawaii on February 7, 1941). The two often volunteered to attend public events together, and photos of them standing side by side appeared on the front pages of local newspapers.

Of course, this apparent harmony is more of a show. Like the relationship between the army and navy of most countries in this era, the army and navy of Hawaii are also filthy in private, and there is no possibility of sincere cooperation and hand in hand. In fact, neither Kimmel nor Schott saw the need for such cooperation. In their view, the tasks of the army and navy are completely different, and each should do its own thing, and neither should interfere with the other's good.

Even the top echelons of the Army and Navy in Washington believe that there is nothing wrong with the division of labor between the Army and the Air Defense, the Navy for responding to maritime threats and the internal affairs of naval bases. Although according to this division of labor, external reconnaissance is the responsibility of the Navy, the radar station is under the management of the Army. But this kind of small transactional inconvenience is not within the scope of consideration of the high-level.

Under this guiding ideology, when Kimmel and Short were together, they generally only discussed football skills and rarely involved official business. However, nothing is absolute. Today, while the two golfers on the golf course are battling over the question of who will pay for today's dinner (which is usually paid by the loser), they also exchanged views on some of the different opinions of the army and navy at present.

Some time ago, Kimmel and Short teamed up to make such a scene. Although they were "suppressed" by Stark and Stimson, the crying children had milk to eat, and they somehow got some comfort from the "official master of Washington". For example, by the end of October, they will receive no less than 50 new Mustang fighters. Recently, there has been a heated argument between Kimmel and Schott's army and naval aviation commanders over how the 50 Mustang fighters should be deployed.

On the Army side, led by Maj. Gen. Fried-Martin, commander of the Hawaiian Army Air Corps, decided that the best of things should be left at Pearl Harbor and replaced with some old-fashioned planes to Wake Island and Midway. The reason for this is that if there is an attack there, there is no pity to lose those old planes, and the losses will be much less. As for Guam, which was further away, Martin didn't think about it at all, because in his opinion, if MacArthur couldn't hold the Philippines, Guam would have no value to defend at all.

On the naval side, Kimmel's operations staff officer, Colonel Mark Morris, believes that there is no need to worry about the defense of Oahu, and the Japanese will not be able to launch an air attack on Pearl Harbor, so there is no need to worry about the defense of Oahu. On the other hand, Wake Island and Midway Island are more likely to be attacked, so the best should be put at the forefront. This view was strongly supported by Vice Admiral Halsey, commander of the aircraft carrier task force (Halsey was historically spared by leading the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier squadron to deliver planes to Wake Island).

Neither Kimmel nor Schott have been silent on either of these opinions. First, whether it is Kimmel or Schott has no idea how much the "Mustang" fighter is stronger than the fighter they are using now. Second, and no matter where it is deployed, it is meat in its own pot. Third, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, or the Dutch East Indies were more likely to be targeted by Japan than Hawaii, which was 5,000 kilometers away. Anyway, the fighters are still more than two months away, and there is absolutely no need for them to rush to make a decision. Therefore, as soon as the fourth hole was played, Kimmel and Schott had already reached a consensus to temporarily put aside the dispute and jointly maintain the atmosphere of unity, friendship, harmony and integration between the army and the navy.

At this moment, in a Japanese-owned izakaya on Mount Aleva, less than two kilometers from the golf course, the clerk of the Japanese consulate in Hawaii, Morimura Masa, is flirting with a female geisha. Morimura took up his post in Hawaii in March this year. Ostensibly a top graduate of international law at the University of Tokyo, he passed the Foreign Ministry's public examination a year ago and became an enviable diplomat. In Hawaii, no one except Consul General Kita Nagao knew his true identity - Takeo Yoshikawa, a military spy for the Naval Command Department.

Tall and handsome, the dignified Takeo Yoshikawa is 29 years old. However, in the eyes of Americans, East Asians all have similar faces, and it is not difficult for Yoshikawa to pretend to be a 24-year-old young man. Prior to entering the intelligence community, he was a naval officer, a graduate of the Etajima Naval Academy, served on several ships, and was a master swimmer and kendo.

But Yoshikawa had a problem, he drank so much that he not only burned his stomach, but also lost two fingers in an accident, and finally had to leave the army early. Fortunately, his old commander was still a pity and introduced him to the American Section of the Intelligence Department of the Navy Command Department and became a reserve officer. In the Intelligence Department, Yoshikawa's main job was to sift through the mountains of valuable information. Engaged in this tedious work for a long time, he has developed a hard hand, that is, he is familiar with the various types of ships and equipment of the two major naval powers, the United States and Britain. As a result, he also earned a bluffing nickname among his colleagues - "The Encyclopedia of the United States Navy".

A year ago, when the Pearl Harbor battle plan was officially put on the agenda of the Japanese Navy, Yamamoto Isoroku ordered Ogawa Kanki Osaku of the Intelligence Department to gather detailed information about the Pearl Harbor base as soon as possible. But Ogawa soon ran into a tricky problem.

Originally, the Japanese Naval Intelligence Department had an intelligence group around the Hawaiian Islands, led by a German named Otto Kuhn. Kuhn's public identity is that of a historian who is writing a book about Hawaii. Kuhn's eldest son used to work as a secretary for Goebbels, but because he annoyed Goebbels, the family was sent to Hawaii to do intelligence work.

To be precise, Kuhn was a German spy who worked part-time for the Japanese intelligence agencies in order to earn some extra dollars from the Japanese. And for intelligence in the military field, Kuhn is not very proficient. Aside from boasting in front of the Japanese that he had a wide range of contacts, he didn't actually do much meaningful things.

Much of the information Kuhn provided to the Japanese came from newspapers, radio, and American officers who were messing with his daughter. Obviously, this superficial intelligence cannot meet the needs of actual operations. Moreover, as war approached, it became increasingly difficult to obtain information from public sources such as radio and newspapers.

That's why Naval Intelligence decided to send another knowledgeable intelligence officer to Hawaii. And Takeo Yoshikawa is the best candidate for Ogawa Daisa's personal shot.