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About 20 planes, 2 from an airbase on the island and the other 18 off the USS Enterprise, which was supposed to be in the harbor on December 7th, but a storm slowed the task force down. Even though there was a storm the sailors were able to get a scouting squadron off the deck heading to Hawaii

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