Review: Agree - The torpedeos are fixed much too quickly
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
I give it three stars............... On Second thought - 2.5 stars.The premise is great.Note so great:Too much time on family details - but if it becomes a movie that may be a part of the screenplay.As stated, the Torpedo problem is identified and fix developed and implemented within (I think) about ten days.Radar works great the first time and continues working fine (evidently those 1940 era vacuum tubes are really resilient) - and the Radar crews are all aces.The US pilots Almost all immediately accept the 'don't dogfight with a Zero'.Yep, no group of people accept 'group think' from higher HQs like fighter pilots do - NOT.The management of American combat aircraft during the battle reads like the US was on a Par with the RAF fighter direction program - not likely.-0-0I had no problem reading it all the way through, and it is a great premise, but there were just too many happy choices made by the US..Admiral Kimmel (US Navy - duh) calls the Army Chief of Staff (General Marshall) to ask for parts to be shipped to Hawaii for Army aircraft.I'd wonder how the Chief of Naval Operations, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of the Navy would feel about that.One thing I'm not sure of:The books has PBYs (Twin engine Navy patrol bombers) each fly two-tons of Army aircraft parts from California to Hawaii.That sounds kind of unlikely because the B-17s had to make the trip with their machine guns removed.The listed range of the PBY in normal configuration was 2500 to 2600 miles and it's almost exactly 2400 miles from California to Hawaii.That is an awfully tight flight profile for transporting supplies when the War still had not started.