[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I believe that this scenario has been extensively debated in otrher forums int he past and certainly I have read suggestions that FDR did indeed know about the attack on Pearl Harbor. I suggest that it was a wide-held belief that a Japanese attack was inevitable but it was anticipated that it would be againt the Phillipines. Against that the Japanese submarine activity in the Pacific has been cited as evidence that Pearl Harbor was the main target.

I am trying to wrack my brains as to whether the British alerted the Americans to Japanese interest in the British air attacks on Taranto Harbor. The Japanese reputedly asked the Germans for detailed information on the attack. Such attention must have been obviously intended to gain experience on attacks on another naval harbour.