“The Japs wanted to run a pre-attack seaplane on Pearl to confirm carriers or no.”
Actually, we sunk a Japanese mini-submarine just south of the harbor about an hour before the attack hit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/japanese-submarine-sunk-at-pearl-harbor-is-found.html
rwood
Yup!
Full-on COMBAT yet as if by some supernatural somulence the USN just would NOT wake-up.