Cryhavoc101
Donor
The USNs best bet assuming enough lead time following a concise warning is to GTFO and head ESE under land based air cover - await the carriers and then review the situation.
Haring off north at 18-20 knots is going to end badly
Meanwhile Pearl batons down the hatches and stands too with its airpower fuelled and armed!
What is likely to happen is the IJN realise that they have been rumbled and are likely to bottle it and turn back - but the cat is out of the bag and possibly the declaration of war already sent to the Japanese Embassy (and already decoded by the US)
What ever happens the whole thing is a Casus belli and effectively places both nations at war - even without a shot being fired - after all - a IJN carrier fleet being that close to Pearl has but one purpose
Haring off north at 18-20 knots is going to end badly
Meanwhile Pearl batons down the hatches and stands too with its airpower fuelled and armed!
What is likely to happen is the IJN realise that they have been rumbled and are likely to bottle it and turn back - but the cat is out of the bag and possibly the declaration of war already sent to the Japanese Embassy (and already decoded by the US)
What ever happens the whole thing is a Casus belli and effectively places both nations at war - even without a shot being fired - after all - a IJN carrier fleet being that close to Pearl has but one purpose