“Richardson’s most stunning claim was that his superiors specifically vetoed his plan to use newly arrived PBYs to mount aerial patrols to the northwest of Hawaii.”
The story about the PBY patrols is a half truth which misrepresents the circumstances. The Navy had a limited number of PBY aircraft, a limited amount of appropriations to fund the maintenance and operations of those aircraft, and a limited number of operational flight hours allotted to their operations. The task of providing full coverage of all possible approaches to Pearl Harbor some 7 days a week and 24 hours per day for weeks and months on end was well beyond the number of PBY flight hours available to the Navy’s budget for these PBY aircraft and units. Consequently, a decision was made to maintain PBY patrols in what they considered to be the most promising patrol sectors and schedules. Even after the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, the commanders still were unable to direct the PBY patrols to the correct patrol sectors at the correct times.
I.need help quick. My 90yo grandma just told me that my grandpa in corpus christi was told he was shipping out if the war wasnt won. I was telling her of the two uboats recently found in the GOM.
She a lifelong dem voter admitted she voted st
raight R wow.
The wider case for conspiracy and cover-up by FDR and his associates is forcefully made in Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor Paperback, by Robert Stinnett, and Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy, by Percy L. Greaves Jr. With key files still secret in US and British archives, the case remains open.