... . The winds code was an earlier transmission that they had intercepted that turned out to be a fake weather report broadcast on a Japanese short-wave station. The words higashi no kaze ame (east wind, rain) were heard on the transmission and they already knew that this was the Japanese code for war with the United States. The top U.S. military officials tried to ... seen loading up on scrap iron and petroleum at America's West Coast ports. Meanwhile, American naval intelligence, using radio direction finding (RDF), tracked the tankers to the Japanese naval oil depot at Tokuyama." Rooseve...

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