May seventh is kind of the appetizer for may eight. The war game showed withall you're basically afloat in gasolene and munitions vehicle without protection. Even those small groups of fight s you keep back, known as c a p, or combat air patrol, theyre ging to prove to be less than a hundred percent effective. So to launch a strike to take out the enemy carriers who could hurt you, and realize that the japanese reconnaissance guy had given you the wrong information is potentially a devastating mistake.