Yeah, but no excuse for MacArthur sitting in Malacañang Palace AFTER hearing about Pearl and keeping the B-17s at Clark Field all day. We lost them all when we should have been bombing Formosa.
Sometime read the real story about the Americans at Clark Field. They were taking extraordinary measures including keeping the planes in the air.
They had to land to refuel and it was right then when the Japanese attacked.
I knew someone who was an American soldier in the Philippines in December 1941. He survived the Bataan Death March and more than 3 years as a prisoner of war. He died a few years ago in his 90s. He did not have a good opinion of General MacArthur.