Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Who Knew ? Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:06:08 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 12 Message-ID: <87v916z7tb.fsf@localhost> References: <87k0hu8hsx.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87bl369n3h.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <87zgqp6kox.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87mtmn7ohj.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <20211103072641.1f36fd9ef1e2138951d0396c@eircom.net> <8cd50e88-aa50-4323-b22f-468831e5b616n@googlegroups.com> <87wnln2r7g.fsf@localhost> <1807090202.657832217.546674.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a5fd03c5b88f9fa69c2440733b73a2bc"; logging-data="22471"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+3YgwJpWuMkYcN16e54gQcIA7s5+15Czo=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l30V6/BLhM/sQX9CSvKKb3NRk/c= sha1:n49yrQKGYf6qyHc9t2cHfczDvcM= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:219635 Peter Flass writes: > I was hoping for an explanation of why, but didn’t get one. I guess the > Japanese expected to get our carriers, in which case the oil would be > secondary. They probably planned to attack them in the second wave, which > never happened. ... after finding the US carriers weren't in port, the Japanese carriers fleeing to the north from Hawaii, were lucky because the US carriers had started hunting west of the islands -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970