“They have recently found out that TWO, not one Japanese subs probably penetrated the heart of the harbor, reaching immediately next to battleship row. The new thinking is that they accounted for many more hits than had previously been attributed to them”
one hit on WEST VIRGINIA by midget subs. the one torpedo hole is larger than the others and the submarine torpedo warhead was twice as large as aerial torpedo warheads.
i have studied the attack and wrote an alternate history piece on it. what happen was the second best thing given we were going to be attacked. any sortie by the BBs would have caused them to be sunk at sea with heavier loss of life and no recovery. any of our carriers foing after the KB would have been sunk. the best thing would have been an alert an hour before so the ships would be manned and ready and perhaps even some army AA guns would have been manned and had ammo. remember, the ships had ammo on board, the army’s ammo was in the the munitions dumps.
oh and fdr did not know of the attack, churchill didn’t tell him, and there were no transmissions from the japanese task force that were picked up by anyone. everyone please reserve your tin foil hats for current events.