in the comments below, please give examples of things you didn't know then. thanks
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I've always been suspicious of the Great Depression. What has also bothered me for ages is: Didn't the U.S. have radar in 1941? "October 7" seemed way familiar.
The United States did have radar, but the government failed to warn the people of Pearl Harbor of the attack by Japan. And even if we did have radar, it would have been of limited range, and the attack itself happened at dawn local time while most of the base was attending church services.