[endthematrix]

The War Dept knew something was coming early December. Henry L Stimson's Diary, November 25, 1941 notes that they expected an attack, "for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning."

I'm gonna sniff to try to fined some MAGIC diplomatic cables to try to find something on this. The whole situation was at its brink.

[supercat]

The War Dept knew something was coming early December. Henry L Stimson's Diary, November 25, 1941 notes that they expected an attack, "for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning."

Yes, but did they have any idea what? My recollection is that the planes were arranged in rows for the purpose of preventing anyone from being able to sneak among them unobserved. Had the Japanese been intending to have bombs hand-planted by saboteurs, this might have been a good defense. Unfortunately, it was ineffective against the threat that actually materialized.