showed the letter to McCollum. This was the first time McCollum had seen these war warnings: "Well, good gosh, you put in the words 'war warning'. I do not know what could be plainer than that, but, nevertheless, I would like to see mine go too."3
             Other messages, like the ones listed below, were not given to the proper authorities.
             On November 28th – Naval transmission of Army war warnings
             December 1st – change of Japanese call signals, combined with other indications of radio secrecy. Evaluated extremely unusual after the November 1st change.
             December 6th- message from the commander-in-Chief, Asiatic Fleet, on sightings of Japanese ships in Camranh Bay. 4
             The above mentioned communications indicate that some military officials knew an attack on Pear Harbor was possible, while others, such as McCollum, did not learn the information until it was too late. These miscommunications continued.
             On December 1st Admiral Kimmel noticed the Japanese Fleet on radar but thought nothing of it. December 2nd the fleet could not be found and Kimmel joked around with Layton: "What, you don't know where the carriers are? Do you mean to say they could be rounding Diamond Head and you wouldn't know it?"5 Layton said it was possible, and hoped they could see the ships before that had happened. Layton explained that it was easy to lose track of the carriers because when carriers or other vesse
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