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Article: Armstrong, Alan: Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor.(Book review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- June 22, 2006
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Armstrong, Alan Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor Guilford, CT: Lyons Press 302 pp., $22.95, ISBN 1-59228-913-4 Publication Date: June 2006
In February 1941, when Japan began formulating a specific plan to attack Pearl Harbor, former Army Air Corps captain Claire Chennault, in league with Chiang Kai-shek and American supporters of China, was already proposing to use American planes and pilots to strengthen the embattled Chinese air force--and conduct preemptive strikes in Japan. This book tells the story of Chennault's plan in greater detail than before.
The story is interesting and ironic, but the ...