Could the Axis Powers have attacked the mainland United States?

Some folks thought that was enough of a risk to move large numbers of American citizens inland and isolate them in camps. I do not support their actions but the risk was thought to be there.

I was looking at all the damage that vast Fifth Column did on 7 December & in the weeks and months afterwards.
 
Why'd he assume there would be so many fifth columnists?

Wartime propaganda, you want people to look out for any potential spies that might have made it through. If you tell them the truth that it is " We figure there maybe a few dozen spies out there, maybe even a couple hundred." people won't look too hard. If you tell them there maybe 100,000 they will look a lot harder and you may catch the actual handful that is out there.
 

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@Barry Bull, @nbcman

Read the book.

I don't think the Amazon comment Barry posted was written by someone who had read the book.

I am aware of the 442nd Infantry Regiment but it has little to do with how communities behave when invaded. Try Japanese in the Philippines for something more comparable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_in_the_Philippines#American_period_and_the_Post-WWII_era
Comparable or not, IJ isn’t occupying Hawaii so it doesn’t matter.
 
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