There are less than 30 hours left before Pearl Harbor (Hawaii and Washington are six hours late). What can John do now? The answer is obviously self-evident - watch the play!

John is just the director of the Army Transportation Bureau, and he is not the "Twelve Apostles" who have the highest military intelligence, so he cannot influence Pearl Harbor, which is thousands of miles away.

Even if he did run to Marshall, Stimson, or Roosevelt that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor tomorrow, it would do nothing but make trouble for himself. Do you really think that Washington has not received intelligence before?

In later generations, there were various speculations about whether the Pearl Harbor time was a "bitter ploy" used by Roosevelt to drag the United States into the war. A group of historical gossip parties have also painstakingly collected all kinds of "evidence" of truth and falsehood to prove their conspiracy theories.

In his previous life, John was still a little skeptical of these arguments, but now that he is in them, he naturally knows that these so-called "evidences" are just afterthoughts.

True, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Washington did receive some information from various sources about a possible Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

But whether it was the legendary warning from the Magic Team, the Chinese military commander, the unknown ship, or the mysterious Peruvian ambassador to Tokyo, it was only one of the vast amounts of information Roosevelt received.

In fact, in the intelligence received by Washington, Pearl Harbor was far more than the only target that could be attacked by the Japanese. Within two days of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese launched a series of attacks on Malaysia, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippines, and Wake Island. Therefore, it is difficult for the United States to judge from the intelligence that they will strike there first.

For now, most of the top brass of the Army and Navy are inclined to believe that the Japanese are likely to attack Malaya and Singapore first, followed by the Philippines, Guam, or Wake Island, and even the Panama Canal is more likely to be attacked than Pearl Harbor.

In the words of Secretary Stark (now Chief of Naval Operations, the equivalent of the Army's chief of staff in the Navy): Hawaii is the safest place to be outside of the continental United States.

In the view of the pro-British admiral, Pearl Harbor's joint defense plan for the navy and land forces to prepare for a sudden air attack was detailed and thorough. He had even gone so far as to use the plan submitted by Kimmel and Short as a model and send it to the commanders of the other military districts for their reference.

This is not Stark's incompetence, and his view can be said to represent the mainstream view of the current US military circles. Because from the point of common sense, it is almost impossible to send a huge fleet across the Pacific Ocean to attack the opponent's naval base.

Therefore, in John's view, only those preconceived "hindsights" would feel that Roosevelt was playing a "bitter trick" with thousands of lives and most of the Pacific Fleet.

If Roosevelt really knew about the plans of the Japanese, he could have taken the opportunity to ambush the Japanese. Anyway, they are already fighting the Japanese at home, can Congress not let the United States enter the war?

Of course, although John was powerless and unwilling to change the fate of the Pacific Fleet, he was shocked to find that the original historical trajectory had quietly changed.

For example, the USS Enterprise, which historically escaped death due to good fortune. Originally, the Enterprise was supposed to leave Pearl Harbor on 28 November under the leadership of Rear Adm. Halsey "Bull" to transport planes and air forces to Wilkieke Island. Then, on the way back, he was "lucky" to encounter bad weather and missed the return date of the 6th, thus passing by Nagumo Tadaichi's fleet.

But now, the Enterprise is estimated to be in danger this time. Because he could be pretty sure that the mission to Wake Island to deliver planes had been completed a week earlier.

This discovery was found by John in a report this morning. Although the transport from Oahu to Wake Island was carried out by the Navy, John also had a copy of the report, as some of the 12 planes sent by Hasir were for the island's Army. It shows that the plane arrived at Wake Island a full seven days earlier than it would have historically been.

Whether this was caused by his butterfly's wings, John did not know. Anyway, the navy is not in his business. Maybe without the Enterprise, Kaiser Shipbuilding's escort aircraft carrier can sell a few more.

Don't look at the slow speed of the escort aircraft carrier, the poor damage resistance, and the small number of carrier-based aircraft, but it is not ambiguous to really fight. Historically, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, six Casablanca-class escort carriers combined to inflict even heavy damage on Japan's most powerful surface fleet, the First Mobile Fleet. Therefore, if the Enterprise is gone, the Navy can also save the emergency by buying a few more escort aircraft carriers.

John was more concerned about the series of personnel changes that would occur in the top echelons of the Army and Navy after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Historically, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the angry American people demanded a thorough investigation of those responsible, in addition to the removal of Pacific Fleet Commander Kimmel and Hawaii Military District Commander Short, the people also needed a big man to take the role, and this unlucky guy was Admiral Stark.

In March 1942, Stark was relieved of his position as Chief of Naval Operations and was replaced by Admiral Ernest King. Subsequently, Stark was transferred to the post of commander of the U.S. Navy in European waters and President Roosevelt's personal military representative in London.

Oddly enough, Marshall, who made a similar mistake to Stark, was lucky. Not only did he not have any, but he also worked as the chief of staff of the army until the end of the war, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for the "Marshall Plan" implemented after the war, which can be described as fame and fortune.

Stark's successor, Admiral Ernest King, said after the war: "I have never been able to figure out why Roosevelt was able to fire Admiral Stark and not General Marshall." It seems to me that they made the same mistakes. ”

In the same position, with the same responsibilities, and with the same mistakes, one fell into hell and the other went to heaven. How did Marshall do it?

John, although Pearl Harbor has been studied for more than half a century, there are still many mysteries behind it that are worth taking a closer look at.

Of course, he can't lose his job. The top priority is to seize the time to lay out a new set of supply routes in Australia. Next, MacArthur, who was defeated, still needed the Army Transportation Department to wipe his ass. John was worried, who should he send to Australia?