[gregebowman]

Well, if everybody had followed Yamamoto's original plan for the attack of Pearl Harbor, the Panama canal would have already been out of service. But because the third wave of planes weren't lauched and didn't take out the dry dock facilities and teh fuel tanks, the US was quicker at fixing their fleet than the admiral had anticipated. He had planned for the Japs to be at Panama within 6 months after Pearl Harbor. Thankfully, his plans went awry.