OK this puzzle is OT from climate but a fascinating part of the Pearl Harbor story.
This year I have read (and reread) the “revisionist” Pearl Harbor book “Day of Deceit” by Robert Stinnett and I have my reservations about some claims he makes about intelligence the US was deriving from IJN radio traffic.
Moving on from that – on pages 146 to 150 of the hardcover 2000 edition of “Day of Deceit” Stinnett recounts in detail how units of Kimmel’s Pacific Fleet conducted Exercise 191 north of Oahu in the vicinity of the composer seamounts to meet a hypothetical threat from an intruder “Black Fleet” the central force of which was played by the US carrier Lexington. The defensive forces part of Exercise 191 were termed “White Fleet”.
This exercise was terminated on 24 November 1941 apparently on orders from Washington and all units returned to Pearl and subsequently the two carriers Lexington and Enterprise left to deliver fighter aircraft to islands further out in the Pacific. The IJN First Air Fleet was secretly assembled at Hitokappu Bay in the Kuriles and departed to attack Pearl Harbor at 0600 26Nov1941 (still the 25th in Hawaii).
My question arises because I do not see a reference to Exercise 191 or any such fleet activities north of Oahu on those dates in my 1982 book “At Dawn We Slept” that I have read and reread over decades. “At Dawn We Slept” is written in general timeline order and I have examined the pages from the start of Chapter 44 page 353 to page 372 and have not seen any reference to Exercise 191 or any sorties by Pacific Fleet units to the area north of Oahu.
Does any reader have confirmation from another source that Exercise 191 took place as the late Robert Stinnett claimed? I can scan those few pages 146-150 from “Day of Deceit” if anybody wants.

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November 28, 2019 at 07:32PM