after Pearl Harbor they found bed sheets laid out in the shapes of arrows pointing towards Pearl Harbor, pics?

Question

after Pearl Harbor they found bed sheets laid out in the shapes of arrows pointing towards Pearl Harbor, does anyone know where i can find some pictures of it for my history project?

Answer 1

> found bed sheets laid out in the shapes of arrows pointing towards Pearl Harbor

The classical version of this myth is "Japanese workers had cut arrows into the cane fields, thus pointing the way to Pearl Harbor". Never met the "bed sheets" version before.

So a little experiment :

pearl harbor bed sheets

in Google gives "about 724,000" hits. But

pearl harbor cane field

gives only "about 303,000" hits. Hmm.

But I notice that there was actually 1 (one) *German* Nazi in Oahu, Bernard Otto Julius Kuehn, who was convicted for offering to sell info to the Japanese consulate in Hawaii. He proposed a whole signaling system with *sheets*, sails, and dormer lights. He was sentenced to be shot "by musketry" in Honolulu.

Wikipedia remarks, and rightly so : "[This rumor] was considered ludicrous by military officers (especially pilots), who knew any force which could fly hundreds of miles to find O'ahu would have no difficulty finding the largest harbor in the Central Pacific. The rumor also ignored the larger evidence of Japanese navigational skills."

Answer 2

As many have stated this is an urban legend. Think about this, Japanese naval pilots were some of the best pilots in the world at that time. Many had thousands of hours of flying time, they would not have needed any additional help finding the harbor.

Answer 3

The attack on Pearl Harbor became the catalyst for the U. S. to connect the conflict. nevertheless Japan have been in contact interior the Pacific because of the fact that WW I, the attack became the beginning up of the top for them. the eastern have been defeated in a sequence of super naval battles, on the conflict of the Philippine Sea and the conflict of Leyte Gulf in 1944 wherein the Allies greater desirable stepped forward in the direction of the eastern place of beginning via invading the Marianas and then the Philippines, installation bases from which Japan ought to be bombed via strategic bombers merely like the B-29. 1945 observed invasions of key islands alongside with Iwo Jima and Okinawa. interior the intervening time, Allied submarines progressively decrease off the provision of oil and different uncooked materials to Japan. interior the final twelve months of the conflict US air forces carried out a strategic firebombing marketing campaign against the eastern place of beginning. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the eastern city of Hiroshima, and on August 9 yet another became dropped on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945. FDR's reaction to Germany became slower. The Lend-employ Act became exceeded in 1940 that allowed the U. S. to lend ships to England who agreed to return them after the conflict. the two the President and Congress felt that the first public might settle for this greater desirable than giving financial loans or actual entering into the conflict. 2 greater significant activities befell till now the U. S. entered the conflict. First, the U.S. and Japan signed a non-aggression treaty. This allowed Japan to concentration on southeast Asia and the Pacific. 2d, Hitler desperate to attack the U.S.. the eastern attack at Pearl Harbor made conflict unavoidable. day after right this moment, FDR requested Congress for an announcement of conflict in his sought after speech.

Answer 4

This is an urban legend and never really happened. While later they did find a couple Japanese immigrants who aided fliers who were shot down on isolated Hawaiian Islands, the bed sheet story never happened.

Answer 5

I've read a lot about the attack and have never heard of this one. The Japanese pilots had maps and reconaissance photos, and had a large model of the island to study. They knew where they were going.

Answer 6

I have never heard of this. The harbor would be obvious from low flying planes.

Answer 7

YES... the pictures are in the book "Hoaxs for the Gullible AmeriKan People"

I don't know where you got this nonsense but there is no truth to it.

Answer 8

Nah, the Japanese naval fliers knew all too well where it was.