Yup!
Full-on COMBAT yet as if by some supernatural somulence the USN just would NOT wake-up.
The USN didn’t come awake until the bureaucrat admirals were replace by wartime ones. Cost a lot of US young men.
Was at Pearl yesterday (no way I’m going on the 7th) — that, plus the Marathon being run on the island). I’m so struck by the juxtaposition of the USS Missouri (where it all ended) alongside the Arizona Memorial (where it all started). They started it; we finished it; millions died; millions more were saved. It made me feel almost happy that we nuked their asses.
Of all things, Yamomoto had said “The ships at Pearl are like a dagger pointed directly at our throats.” Huh???What??? That’s like saying that laws against rape are like a gun pointed at the head of a rapist. Good grief! What a stark illustration of contrasting worldviews.