02-13-2020, 06:28 AM
“Don’t worry about it,” Tyler told the radar operator, thinking it was a flight of U.S. B-17 bombers that was due in from the mainland.
Instead, the blip on the radar screen was the first wave of more than 180 Japanese fighters, torpedo bombers, dive bombers and horizontal bombers whose surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the island’s main airfields shortly before 8 a.m. plunged the United States into World War II.
https://www.dispatch.com/article/2010022.../302259665
Radar wasn't that great back in 1941. We have better equipment now, but there are also missile threats and the planes fly with stealth technology. The Pentagon's assessment finds North Korea and a rising China are America's greatest military concerns in 2020.
"... December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy." - President Roosevelt
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
I'd like to see the threat assessment criteria used by the protestors, and the archeological findings.
Instead, the blip on the radar screen was the first wave of more than 180 Japanese fighters, torpedo bombers, dive bombers and horizontal bombers whose surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the island’s main airfields shortly before 8 a.m. plunged the United States into World War II.
https://www.dispatch.com/article/2010022.../302259665
Radar wasn't that great back in 1941. We have better equipment now, but there are also missile threats and the planes fly with stealth technology. The Pentagon's assessment finds North Korea and a rising China are America's greatest military concerns in 2020.
"... December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy." - President Roosevelt
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
I'd like to see the threat assessment criteria used by the protestors, and the archeological findings.
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves