Shipyard explosion near Athens kills eight, injures four

An explosion and fire on a ship at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four. The ship was undergoing repairs at the time."Rescue crews were trying to remove the final three bodies from the Panamanian-flagged Friendship Gas tanker ship at the Perama...

Secretary Of State Said The Attack's Time And Place Was Known

October 16, 1941 - After meeting FDR, Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote: "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move -- overt move." On November 25, 1941 - After meeting...

The Most Enlightened And Best Informed People In All The World

"I want you to know that your government has no information which it has any thought of withholding from you.... You are, I believe, the most enlightened and best informed people in all the world." President Franklin D. Roosevelt. September 1939.  

FDR's Foreknowledge Of The Attack Is Rediscovered Every 5 Years

June 8, 2001 :: It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor. The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something that should now be solid American history.

Medical Supplies Shipped To Hawaii Prior To The Attack

June 6, 2001::Robert Ogg had been in Naval Intelligence during the war. Ogg had detected the presence of a Japanese task force working its way toward Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Japanese force had been under radio silence. But the silence had been broken on a number...

Roosevelt's Intentions Were Nearly Exposed In 1940

A code clerk at the U.S. embassy in London discovered secret dispatches between Roosevelt and Churchill. These revealed that FDR, despite contrary campaign promises, was determined to engage America in the war. He smuggled some of the documents out of the embassy, hoping...

Churchill/Roosevelt Message November 25, Is Classified To This Day

"When the Japanese attack hit Pearl Harbor, the targets they found were older relics from a bygone age; the 21 modern ships of the Pacific fleet, including the two carriers, were safely out of harm's way."

Day Of Deceit - The Truth About FDR And Pearl Harbor

"Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war...

Le France

"The last liner. Once the longest. Still the fastest. She's off to India to be broken up. The BBC has said its goodbyes. OPEC, the 747 and the need to subsidise Concorde sealed her fate in 1974, despite a mutiny by the crew. She rotted for years in Le Havre, had an...

Lawmakers ante up $100,000 to keep our military bases open

Democrats and Republicans stood together on Friday to support a $100,000 state appropriation to help fight the closing or downsizing of Maine's military bases being proposed by the Defense Department.