From: Henry J Cobb
Date: 4/9/2004 17:23 Pacific Daylight Time

Andrew C. Toppan wrote:
Because all the Navy fighters were aboard the carriers which were,
famously, absent. Launching things like seaplanes, which were present
at Pearl, would be useless and suicidal.

IMHO the single biggest mistake at Pearl was not having the PBYs out for
patrols in every direction at dawn every morning.

Assuming in the first place that there were indications there was such a
sea-borne threat to Hawaii, how would it be done if there weren't even enough
PBYs in Hawaii to cover "every direction" of the compass -- for what sector
width and for what range ...????

MW