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bluestarone

(17,062 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:14 PM Feb 2018

using a quote from WW2 I FEAR WE HAVE AWAKENED A SLEEPING GIANT (this message to Russia)from MUELLER

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2001-10-28/entertainment/0110260564_1_pearl-harbor-tora-tora-richard-fleischer

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using a quote from WW2 I FEAR WE HAVE AWAKENED A SLEEPING GIANT (this message to Russia)from MUELLER (Original Post) bluestarone Feb 2018 OP

Yeah, I had heard before that the quote is spurious Wednesdays Feb 2018 #1

exactly good point!!! bluestarone Feb 2018 #2

Wednesdays

(17,438 posts)

1. Yeah, I had heard before that the quote is spurious

Reply to bluestarone (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:50 PM

Feb 2018

But even if Yamamoto never said it, he certainly thought something akin to it, because he was totally against the raid on Pearl Harbor (even though it was a tactical triumph for him), for the very reason stated in the famous quote.

bluestarone

(17,062 posts)

2. exactly good point!!!

Reply to Wednesdays (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:54 PM

Feb 2018

i feel Russia will soon find out we were asleep, BUT NOW ARE VERY MUCH AWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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