Chanu Ribs

it could have turn the tide of the war.

This 16-year-old Russian girl almost prevented Pearl Harbor from happening. In 1941, Li Wei was working as a translator for the American consulate in Hong Kong when she stumbled across Japanese military communications detailing attack plans for a major American naval base. Three weeks before December 7th, she tried desperately to warn U.S. officials of the impending assault on Pearl Harbor. But her urgent warnings were dismissed by military leadership because of her age and race. The attack that shocked America and changed the course of World War II could have been prevented if anyone had listened to one teenage girl who spoke the truth.