Well, Knightmove,

this one´s a bit of a hot potato as there´s not enough evidence, but it must be said that the US played rough games with the Japanese. The Japs were running out of fuel and giving up their demands in China for the US oil was just too much. As well mixed with this was the US false thinking that Japanese technology was not capable of Shallow water torpedoes or fuelling the planes in the air...

check the site:

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb...=000123#000000



PS. I would not call it conspiracy actually but a move with a lot of "stick" attached- I wonder if the US had several Japanese possibilities of response covered-they should have. And if Roosevelt was not to be blamed then the US intelligence and Military High Commad for sure for not taking all choices seriously.

[ 09. May 2003, 01:47 PM: Message edited by: Kai-Petri ]

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