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...high-level bombers, dive bombers.

Zero fighters for cover...

...go by the northern route,

use the new torpedoes...

...we attack on a weekend.

Genda has thought of everything...

...refueling...

...the weather...

And we go on to say,

"lt should be noted that Japan...

...has never preceded hostile action

by a declaration of war.

We have concluded it possible

that a fast-rated...

...Japanese carrier force may arrive

in Hawaii with no prior warning...

...from our intelligence service.

The most favorable time

to the enemy would be dawn.

He probably would employ

a maximum of six carriers...

...strike on a weekend.

- We recommend that the Air Corps-- "

- l read it.

Yes, sir.

l appreciate the work that you

and General Martin have put in.

These reports are very useful

to General Short and myself.

General Martin, you don't pull

any punches, do you?

"We recommend that the Air Corps...

...maintain a thorough

360-degree search...

...of the Hawaiian area during daylight.

This will require a force

of 180 B-17 airplanes."

We can't search the sea approaches

unless we have the planes, sir.

One hundred and eighty B-17s?

For God's sakes, that's more than

the number existing in the States.

lt looks fine on paper,

but that's not a paper fleet out there.

Squadron from the Enterprise.

Bill Halsey's working

the tails off his men.

Wish we had more like him.

Makes the most of what he's got.

Doesn't keep asking for the moon.

Well, not one bomb anywhere

near the target for the past hour.

Your pilots can see it, l suppose.

- Who's next?

- lt's Anderson, sir.

Now, that's more like it.

- Maybe your boys finally get it.

- l hope so, sir.

Who's next?

Lieutenant Dickenson.

Tell Lieutenant Dickenson for me...

...he couldn't hit a bull

in the butt with a bass fiddle.

Yes, sir.

Ten-hut.

- Carry on.

- Carry on.

This it?

Yes, sir. Our new radar.

lt's a remarkable

scientific achievement...

...capable of spotting an intruder

on the sea or in the air...

...and at quite a range.

Now, listen, colonel, as you know,

we're short on patrol planes.

We're gonna have to rely on this...

...thing to detect the enemy.

General, radar should do the job.

What's it doing here, not set up?

We're about to truck it up

that mountain.

That peak up there is the ideal spot

to put our main radar post.

At that height, we'd be clear

of all interference.

Obviously.

But, sir, we can't get permission

to put her up there.

Permission?

From the National Park Service

Department of lnterior.

See, all of this belongs

to the Hawaiian National Park.

The Hawaiian National Park?

Yes, sir. The Wildlife Preservation

Society is raising hell too.

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