In message , John Keeney
writes
Catalinas for patrol, nobody was going to attack Pearl at night in '41:
that would have required night carrier ops.

Taranto was a night raid... it could be done, it _had_ been done.

--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk