Mark the thing of it was they had to decide between aborting the mission completely, launching early and risk loosing easily replaceable B25's or risk the carriers that were not easily replaced. They were building ships like mad but they took a long time to replace. They didn't know for sure if any message got through but at the time they really couldn't risk the carriers on publicity stunts to make the civilian population happy. To my understanding the crews, even at the last minute were given the option of going or not, knowing the risks and they went. Americans in general were out for revenge and none more so than our men and women in uniform. They were able to hit their targets and attempt to get to friendly areas. Bottom line was they couldn't risk the possibility that a message had gotten through. As far as no resistance in the air? Simple. The Japanese, if they got the warning, knew that US carrier based planes didn't have to range from where the picket boat was at to even reach the home island so there was no threat. They never dreamed that we would be crazy enough to try launching twin engine land based bombers from a carrier. Kinda like the battle ship senior brass never dreaming that the Japanese could inflict the damage they did at Pearl Harbor. Ignorance went both ways in WWII. Hitler thought that 1. the US couldn't fight a 2 fronted war and 2. citizen soldiers could never stand up to his "professional" army. Roosevelt thought in late Dec 41 and early 42 that we could do no more than hold the line in the Pacific while we dealt with Germany first. The fact that we could go on the offensive on both fronts by 43 was amazing. Guadalcanal was part of the holding action, not the march (swim really) to Japan.
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