"Jeroen Wenting" wrote in
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Nothing at all. After all, the US doesn't want to start a war by
attacking the Japanese fleet unprovoked!

Unprovoked?
Half the IJN sitting witihn striking range of Pearl Harbo(u)r
isn't a provocation in and of itself?
Air wings bonbed up with props turning and you're worried about
possibly provoking them?
Are you Spanish? Oh wait, .NL, Jeez if it had been guys like you
in charge way back when instead of Wilhelmus van Nassau you'd be
Spanish.

Admittedly the Japanese might be out there whale watching but I
kinda doubt it and I think the Army and Navy Departments would have
disagreed.

Its interesting to consider what might have happened had a US sub
undetected by the Japanese been able to give 24hrs notice and been
believed. The fleet would probably have sortied although to what
end is not certain and the US carriers might have been able to lay
their own ambush. It would be too much to hope for an early Midway
but who knows. In the best of all possible worlds the Battleships
would have snuck up to within gun range of the Jap task force and
done a successful Leyte on their ass. Oh the look on Yamamotos face
as dawn broke to a horizon lined with US BBs, CAs, CLs, DDs, etc
just as they opened fire and the lookouts spotted inbound torpedoes.

Instead, shadow them and report a warning back to Pearl so they can
launch fighters to protect the installations there against a POSSIBLE
Japanese attack.

How? Think modern military have problems interoperating?
I very much suspect you'd have no frequencies or modulation in
common. Wasn't most military traffic by Morse anyhow?

Only after the Japanese show definite hostile intent shoot down as
many as possible and provide guidance for a retaliatory strike of
B-17s and B-25s against the Japanese carriers.

Which, at that point in the war would accomplish precisely nothing.

Hang max load of 500lb LGBs on the Eagles, screw the AAMs and 20mm.
You're faster than anything they could possibly get to you and
you don't need to get near the carriers to do them dirt.
As has been pointed out, if you catch them at the right time, one
bomb might do it for each carrier and if not you have plenty
in reserve.

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