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Time pulls back, to the beginning of December, because at this time there are some stories going on.

Hawaii is a great place to be. So the Americans snatched Hawaii from the Native Hawaiian Queen.

There are many islands in Hawaii, but the largest island of Hawaii is also the youngest, with frequent volcanic eruptions, lava flows, steep slopes, and a small population.

The most populous is Oahu. Don't be surprised if someone says Oahu, because it's another transliteration. Honolulu is here, and so is Honolulu.

It has a warm climate, cities, a large number of sugar cane plantations, a government, a port, and an airport.

There is a harbor in the southern part of this island, and inside the harbor is the famous Pearl Harbor, which is the home port of the US Pacific Fleet.

From the sea into the Pearl Harbor waterway, keep sticking to the right bank, and soon arrive at Pearl Harbor.

On the left side of Pearl Harbor is Ford Island, and on the south side of the port is the urban area. There are a lot of bars in the downtown area near Pearl Harbor that are in the business of soldiers.

On the slopes of Aleva Hill behind Pearl Harbor, there is a Chunshio House restaurant, which is owned by a Japanese, and the proprietress is called Fujiwara Hako. From one of the windows of this teahouse, you can clearly see the situation at Pearl Harbor.

A Japanese man is in a private room, messing around with a few Japanese geisha. Outside the door, an American in a top hat saw this Japanese mingling with geisha through the crack in the door, and the corners of his mouth showed disdain, paid the money, and left.

The Japanese in the room also realized that the Americans were gone, laughed with the geisha a few more times, and paid them the money. The geisha took the money and left.

The Japanese were observing the waterway when a tugboat slowly drove into the harbor.

This Japanese man is Takeo Yoshikawa, a spy of the Japanese Navy and a staff officer of the American Section of the Japanese Naval Intelligence.

His public identity is that of a clerk at the Japanese consulate in Hawaii, and his name is Masashi Morimura. He's been here for two hundred days.

He often haunts and haunts places where American GIs hang out, and sometimes he has a drink with GIs and chats. The GIs were largely unwary of the tourist-looking Japanese and spoke casually.

When he drove around the island, he often had soldiers hitchhiking, and as long as he chatted a few words, he could always get some information.

That's how the secret flowed into his heart.

Once, he dived under a warship, and a cook poured a pot of hot water into the water, almost burning him, and it is not surprising that the American GI urinated on him.

Once, he put on makeup and went into a military restricted area to go fishing, and was spotted by American military sentries. The sentry was unceremonious and shot at him. Fortunately, the bullet did not hit him.

Yoshikawa also has the ability to make up for anyone. He often dressed up as Filipino and went to work in restaurants. The American GIs privately said that the military secretly followed the family, and they would only shut up when the commander came, but they absolutely did not guard against a Filipino villain.

Last month, Nakajima, an officer of the Japanese Navy, went to the Japanese consulate in Honolulu and asked 97 questions to be answered as soon as possible: the total number of ships berthed, the number and names of ships of different types, the berthing locations of battleships and aircraft carriers, and the types and numbers of aircraft at Hickam and Wheeler airfields.

The note full of questions reached Yoshikawa, who quickly sorted out his thoughts and quickly wrote down the answers to each question. The next day, the answer was handed over to Nakajima. Another theory is that Yoshikawa sent back 97 pieces of information.

After Nakajima left, Yoshikawa accepted a new task, which was to observe the dynamics of Pearl Harbor, how many ships were leaving the port and how many ships were entering the port.

In the evening, Yoshikawa returned to the consulate and sent new information to the consulate. The consulate will send it out at the appropriate time.

There are a lot of Japanese people in Hawaii, some of them are businessmen, some are tourists, and some are even cutting sugar cane. At this time, the US intelligence agencies focused their attention on the Japanese on the island.

Now, the growing tension between Japan and the United States is a well-known fact, and the intelligence services, even the commander of the US Pacific Fleet, Admiral Kimmel, even feared that the Japanese on the island would rise up and take Pearl Harbor.

Admiral Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, never believed that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor on his own, and it was not that no one guessed this. It wasn't that no one warned him.

A long time ago, there was information in his ears from various sources that the Japanese were going to do something to Pearl Harbor. Even the Chinese sent intelligence to the U.S. Embassy in China that they judged that the Japanese Navy would attack Pearl Harbor.

There was also intelligence that the Japanese could attack the Pacific Fleet on a Sunday.

With such a conclusive statement and an intelligence basis, it should be taken seriously, right? Basically, no. It's not that they're unwary of the Japanese, it's just that they don't believe that things will come soon. There are also people who don't believe that the Japanese are so crazy. Japan, after all, is far away. For the Americans at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were the same Japanese who made their living here.

Now, among the ships of Pearl Harbor, there are 3 aircraft carriers, USS Enterprise, USS Lexington, and USS Saratoga. Now, these three aircraft carriers are not in port and are out on duty.

There were 9 battleships in Pearl Harbor, namely the USS Pennsylvania, USS California, USS Maryland, USS Oklahoma, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia, USS Arizona, USS Nevada, and USS Colorado. In addition, there are 20 cruisers, 69 destroyers and 27 submarines.

Currently, ships at Pearl Harbor are at anchor: 8 battleships (USS Pennsylvania, USS California, USS Maryland, USS Oklahoma, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia, USS Arizona, USS Nevada; 3 light cruisers, 3 seaplane supply ships, 29 destroyers. Pearl Harbor ships: 4 light cruisers, 3 destroyers.

The other ships followed the carrier out on a mission.

Admiral Kimmel got another piece of information today that the Japanese might attack Pearl Harbor. He just glanced at the telegram and tossed it aside.

Joke, how can the Japanese attack us? With a voyage of thousands of nautical miles, is the Japanese army capable of attacking? With such a long distance, how could the Japanese army come here and not be detected? No way.

Intelligence said that the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet had left the port. However, Admiral Kimmel also saw other intelligence that the Japanese aircraft carriers had left separately. How could a single aircraft carrier fleet attack Pearl Harbor?

Let's focus on the Japanese in Hawaii.

In fact, not only the Fleet Command, but also the entire U.S. government did not believe that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor because the Japanese ambassador was still negotiating with the U.S. Secretary of State. In the past few days, Japan has also sent a special envoy to the United States for negotiations.

December 4, Pearl Harbor.

There are some interesting moves. None of the Americans here, though, felt anything out of the ordinary.

Three aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet, USS Enterprise, USS Lexington, USS Saratoga left Pearl Harbor and went out on a mission with the fleet. It is said that the departure of the US aircraft carrier was an order of President Roosevelt.

Hospitals are asked to prepare large quantities of fresh plasma. All non-surgical soldiers are discharged. A large number of burn specialists from the United States came to Hawaii for meetings and academic conferences.

Pearl Harbor diverted a large number of planes and parked them at small airfields. Also, some of the planes are laid out on the runway, and it seems that all the planes are here.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet transported a large number of drawings and maintenance personnel to Hawaii and placed them in a safe place.

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1. Yoshikawa was arrested immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was later released because he did not find any espionage. After the U.S. military occupied Japan, he was afraid of being arrested by the U.S. military, so he disguised himself as a monk. Later, he opened a candy store to make a living.