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From: ThePro
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Operational name question (attack on Pearl Harbor)
From: ThePro
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Operational name question (attack on Pearl Harbor)
On Feb 10, 3:40 pm, veritas
>
> This was a Japanese code word, in honor of the "famedZsignal given
> by Admiral Togo at Tsushima: ON THIS ONE BATTLE REST THE FATE OF OUR
> NATION. LET EVERY MAN DO HIS UTMOST." - John Toland "The Rising
> Sun.".
John Keegan wrote*, refering to the Japanese plan for Pearl Harbor:
"On Z-Day (Z was the flag flown by Admiral Togo to signal the opening
of battle against the Russians at Tsushima in May 1905)"
*: In "The Second World War", page 253.
Pierrot Robert
Chicoutimi, Canada
