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.⏱ Timestamps00:00 – Welcome to Why Wars Happened00:50 – Meet Leon Carroll Jr.01:41 – Douglas Wada: The All-American Kid03:05 – Rise of the Office of Naval Intelligence04:37 – Writing Ghost of Honolulu with Mark Harmon07:24 – Wada’s identity as a Japanese American10:46 – Meeting Wada’s family15:32 – Hawaii before Pearl Harbor17:27 – Japanese espionage in Hawaii19:28 – The first U.S. POW in WWII22:03 – Wada’s secret work & interrogations24:52 – Baseball and Japanese American culture29:52 – Researching hidden history33:26 – Remembering Doug Wada’s legacy35:54 – What’s next for Leon Carroll Jr.#WWII #PearlHarbor #Espionage #DouglasWada #NCIS #WhyWarsHappened