[bravo whiskey]

The Brits also had the Poles who were crack code breakers.
I was born December 7, 1951. Made it to the 60th and 70th but not this year.
Never bought into the “somebody knew” theories. As for being on alert and flying searches, they did not have the planes to do that for every report.
I maintain if the Japanese had NOT attacked Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines, we would not have gotten involved defending “colonial empires”.

[jmacusa]

Indeed. The disaster that that was Pearl Harbor was a result of FDR's gutting of the military to fund social welfare programs in The New Deal. The same party is in power 80 years later and fixing to get us in a war somewhere. They never learn.