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The "Winds Code" is a confused military intelligence episode relating to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, especially the advance-knowledge debate claiming that the attack was expected. The Winds Code was an instruction from Tokyo to Japanese legations worldwide that diplomatic relations were in danger of being ruptured. [ 1 ]
When he heard the "East wind, rain" code phrase on the short wave radio bringing the news from Tokyo to signal that an attack against the United States was to proceed, Yoshikawa destroyed all evidence of his activities. When the FBI picked him up on the day of the attack, there was no incriminating evidence of his espionage.
In 2008, the Hawaii Pacific University documentary and corporate video class completed development of a 12-minute film titled East, Wind, Rain to replace the older film shown to visitors at the museum. [38] The film explains the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to museum guests and won the 2010 Pixie Gold Award from American Pixel Academy. [39]
The rain could also lead to quick rises on some of the small streams in the region. Motorists venturing along interstates 20, 40, 77, 85 and 95 should expect delays from poor visibility and excess ...
It was a finalist at the Northern California Book Awards and an alternate selection for the Book of the Month Club. Her second, the 2006 historical novel East Wind, Rain is based on the Niihau incident, a historical event in which a Japanese pilot crash-landed on the private Hawaiian island of Niihau, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
East Wind Rain: Dong feng yu (东风雨) Yunlong Liu: Drama. Shanghai-based espionage and attempts by various agencies to decode coded "weather forecasts" prior to Pearl Harbor attack: 2010 Czech Republic Germany Austria Habermann: Habermannův mlýn (in Czech) Juraj Herz: Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia 2010 Russia
In Roman mythology the east wind was represented by Vulturnus. In Native American Iroquois culture, the east wind is said to be brought by O-yan-do-ne, the Moose spirit, [3] whose breath blows grey mist and sends down cold rains upon the earth. The Authorized King James Version of the English Old Testament makes some seventeen references to the ...
The pilot, Lieutenant J. A. Thomas, and the radioman, O. J. Gannan, had headed for Australia, sailing the plane backwards as it tended to head into the prevailing east wind. In five days and 21 hours, they had covered approximately 385 miles (715 km) on a course within 5 degrees of that intended. San Francisco returned to Pearl Harbor on 26 March.