[mad_as_he$$]

Yes it was a mistake. But the mistake was not launching the third wave and missing the carriers. If they had gotten the carriers the war would have been at least a year longer in the Pacific.

Remember Pearl Harbor!

[demlosers]

"If they had gotten the carriers the war would have been at least a year longer in the Pacific."

One year would have been the rosiest scenario. The rest of remaining US Pacific fleet would been in HUGE trouble.