Waking Up The Sleeping Giants

As a students of U.S. history I have recently watch Tora Tora Tora, a movie about war world II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor that the Japanese exceeded on waking up the “sleeping Giants”. The title of this film is made up of the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise, meaning “charge” or “attack”. I learned from this film that although a week before the American forces were warned and talked about an attack, when the time came on December 7th, the forces at Pear harbor were in denial and not prepared at all. They received limited warning of the increasing risk of aerial attack, which was better understood in Washington than in Honolulu. I learned all about the messages that they were waiting for and