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Could early warning change the outcome of Pearl Harbor?

 
 
Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2015 03:04 pm
How would Pearl Harbor have fared had they had left their radar on?

Men go to greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire Dan Brown
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Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2015 03:12 pm
Radar was very new in 1941 for the US military. Operators did spot something approaching and phoned their superiors but were told "don't worry about it". Have you actually read any of the history of Pearl Harbor?

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Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2015 03:59 pm
@Rickoshay75,
Early warning of whatever kind -- providing it was taken seriously and acted upon -- could have minimized the damage done by the Japanese attack and enabled the US to inflict more damage on the attackers, That said, I don't see that it would have changed one single thing in the days and years to come. FDR would still have gone to Congress the next day with his 'day of infamy' speech, WW II would have progressed in just the same manner and the 'future' would not have been changed,

However, some lives might have been saved.
Quehoniaomath
 
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Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2015 04:35 pm
@Lustig Andrei,
All done on purpose and by design! Very easy to proof!
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