ued negotiations with the Japanese government. Meanwhile he started shifting the long-range B-17 bomber force to the Philippines.[126]
Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941.
On December 4, 1941, The Chicago Tribune published the complete text of "Rainbow Five," a top-secret war plan drawn up by the War Department. It dealt chiefly with mobilization issues, calling for a 10-million man army.
The great majority of historians have rejected the conspiracy thesis that Roosevelt, or anyone any other high government officials, knew in advance about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese had done a very good job in keeping their secrets. All senior American officials were aware that war was imminent and none expected an attack on Pearl Harbor.[127]
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, destroying or damaging 16 warships, including most of the fleet's battleships, and killing almost 3000 American military personnel and civilians. Roosevelt went to Congress to give his famous "Infamy Speech" in which he said this: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
In the weeks after the attack the Japanese conquered the Philip
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