Pearl Harbor minus 4

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Pearl Harbor minus 4

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December 3, 1941

*FBI phone tap on Japanese consulate cook reveals code burning plans, but done 3-4 times per year




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December 3, 1941

Operation Typhoon, the German code name for the push on Moscow, was now more than two months old, and the German forces were now less than 15 miles from Moscow. Lacking supplies and encountering stiff resistance, the German forces of Army Group Center was trying to make one last push into the city. Having only one third of the normal tank strength and insufficient artillery support, the push was primarily done by the infantry at high costs.

One major event would soon tip the Battle of Moscow to the advantage of the Soviets. Some months earlier, the Soviet spy network in Japan under Richard Sorge, with contacts in the Japanese government, had indicated to Stalin that Japan was not in a position to invade Soviet Siberia from Manchuria. Indications were that the Japanese were planning attacks on Dutch and British colonial possessions to the south and the Imperial Japanese Navy was preoccupied with a developing strike plan for some other purpose in the Pacific theater.

Soviet General Zhukov had been able to hold off the German Wehrmacht at the gates of Moscow with exhausted and undersupplied troop and civilians. He desperately needed reinforcements, but many of the Soviet divisions in the west had been shattered by Barbarossa and the encirclement of Kiev. The information provided by Sorge allowed Stalin and Zhukov to transport the winter-trained and equipped Siberian troops west.

By December 3rd, 1941, the Siberian troops had been positioned around Moscow. Along with them, the Soviets brought up reserve armor units equipped with T-34 tanks which were massed and being made for preparations for a Soviet counteroffensive. The T-34 was a superior design to any of the other Soviet tanks that the Germans had encountered in the war and was superior to the German tanks on the battlefield at that point in the war.
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December 3, 1941

The U.S.S. Enterprise is one day sailing from completing its mission delivering Marine aircraft to Wake Island. It has orders to deliver the aircraft and return to Pearl Harbor by December 6th.

The U.S.S. Lexington is in final preparations and loading aircraft for delivery to Midway.

The U.S.S. Saratoga is given orders to complete refitting and make port at San Diego.
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