{"id":15297,"date":"2016-05-16T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15297"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:02","slug":"world-war-ii-history-los-angeles-examiner-publishes-a-map-in-1937-predicting-how-japan-could-attack-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/16\/world-war-ii-history-los-angeles-examiner-publishes-a-map-in-1937-predicting-how-japan-could-attack-america\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II History: Los Angeles Examiner Publishes a Map in 1937 Predicting How Japan Could Attack America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 7, 1937, the Los Angeles Examiner published a prescient map predicting how Imperial Japan could attack the US during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Howard A. Burke, the map imagined a Japanese attack on the US that closely predicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor four years later on December 7, 1941. Burke rightly noted that Japan&#8217;s first target would be Hawaii and the US fleet docked at Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first objective must be capture of Hawaii,&#8221; Burke notes on the map. &#8220;This would mean crippling or annihilating the U.S. fleet, giving Japan one of the world&#8217;s greatest naval bases \u2014 Pearl Harbor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0that attack, Burke then imagined that Japan would follow up the assault with a two-pronged naval and aerial strike from Hawaii against Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a simultaneous Japanese assault from Alaska working its way down the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Burke&#8217;s map below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15298\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/japan.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Japan\" width=\"620\" height=\"782\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/map-of-how-japan-could-attack-us-world-war-ii-2016-5?nr_email_referer=1&amp;utm_content=BISelect&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_campaign=BI%20Select%20Mondays%202016-05-16&amp;utm_term=Business%20Insider%20Select\">Business Insider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 7, 1937, the Los Angeles Examiner published a prescient map predicting how Imperial Japan could attack the US during World War II. Created by Howard A. Burke, the map imagined a Japanese attack on the US that closely predicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor four years later on December 7, 1941. Burke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,6789,1286,6051,6899,1898,1899],"tags":[11669,1760,11670,11671],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}