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INTERVIEW: The Forgotten Spy Who Fought Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor had a spy most people have never heard of.
Leon Carroll Jr. joins Why Wars Happened to uncover the forgotten story of Douglas Wada, a Japanese-American intelligence officer whose work in Hawaii helped shape the earliest days of WWII.
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to Why Wars Happened
00:50 – Meet Leon Carroll Jr.
01:41 – Douglas Wada: The All-American Kid
03:05 – Rise of the Office of Naval Intelligence
04:37 – Writing Ghost of Honolulu with Mark Harmon
07:24 – Wada’s identity as a Japanese American
10:46 – Meeting Wada’s family
15:32 – Hawaii before Pearl Harbor
17:27 – Japanese espionage in Hawaii
19:28 – The first U.S. POW in WWII
22:03 – Wada’s secret work & interrogations
24:52 – Baseball and Japanese American culture
29:52 – Researching hidden history
33:26 – Remembering Doug Wada’s legacy
35:54 – What’s next for Leon Carroll Jr.
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