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Yes it certainly did. The Army had all those planes parked out on the runway's wing to wing tip against sabotage. Nothing more than gunnery practice for the Zero's. I wonder who came up with that thinking?

Many years ago I read a autobiography of a man, whose name escapes me and who had served on the U.S.S Oklahoma. What happened to the men of the Arizona could be said to have been merciful. Most never knew what it them. What happened to the men of the Oklahoma was horrifying. The Oklahoma was due to have a ship wide inspection by a visiting admiral and so the water tight doors had left opened to allow passage of the admiral and his party. When the attack began five torpedoes hit the Oklahoma on the port side and the ship began flooding rapidly. The crew could almost any of the bulkhead doors secured and soon the Oklahoma rolled on it's port side trapping hundreds of men below decks. Many drowned in flooded compartments. The lights went out and compartments were filling up rapidly. This man and his barely made it out after being trapped for some 12 hours.