Toronado3800
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hard to say for sure but whats an established fact now is that FDR was a traiter and murdered those american sailers knowing full well the japenses would bomb them withholding that information from the american fleet purposely allowing them to bomb and murder them so he could get the support of the american people to enter the war and so he could stay in office past the required two terms.
I have read a bit on this and can see your point of view. IMO if the fleet was given 24 hours notice we would have lost several battleships to the same fate as the Repulse and Prince of Whales. Mayby due to Roosevelt not personally being a naval aviation genius maybe due to a racist theory the Japs couldn't use superior planes to do what the Brits did at Taronto. Who knows.
In general I think our ships: were in the right place for a battle, may as well of been sunk in port where they could be refloated, and did not enjoy a war time or modern fast response ability.
Now the Phillipeans was just an unsustainable garrison which should habe been pulled back. What a waste of lives.