The officer in the information center got the report about 7:20. That was what, 25 minutes before the first bombs and torpedoes hit?
If he’d taken it seriously, what would he have done and what would it have changed?
Maybe the ships would have been fully manned and guns pointed at the Japanese air force. Not really much against torpedoes.
“If he’d taken it seriously...”
...he would have been mocked and ridiculed by the rest of the people who would have refused to believe the story until after the bombs started dropping.
And nothing changes. People warn about the Muslims and the Russians and the Chinese and they get mocked and ridiculed. People say that Trump could win the election and they got mocked and ridiculed.
Nothing changes.
No way of knowing but at least we’d have tried.
Probably lives would have been saved.
I recall that some guy figured out that the muslims were going to be flying planes into the WTC some weeks or so before it happened.
He tried to warn people as well, and likewise he was also ignored.