*The Philippines is separated from Hawaii by half the width of the Pacific Ocean. Kind of hard to protect Hawaii from there.*
Come on dude. MacArthur was only responsible for Clark AB. That’s it. 8 hours warning-not good enough?
Prop aircraft. He did not have 8 hours of warning, only the intel which he and many like him were allowed to have. This is the point of the entire discussion of the deceit, and for real collusion in the “special relationship”. The Brits caught a whole lot more than the US did, and their own command was kept out of the intel intercepts (for “security” dont you know. sarc).
Well, sorry, I was confused by what you said. I thought you were saying MacArthur could have sent planes to Hawaii to help out which was impossible in 8 hours since Hawaii is 5,900 miles away and the range of a medium range bomber (B-25) was something like 1,200 miles with a full load.
But yes, 8 hours is plenty of warning time to send a message.