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I understand the joke but fun fact: WWII planes in fact couldn't fly that far(the obvious shorter route) which is one of the reasons the attack was able to succeed, no body expected it despite the numerous warnings they had because it seemed impossible but that is simply because the aircraft carrier was such a new technology that nobody knew how instrumental they would be in modern warfare.
Hardcore History has a great series on the Pacific Theatre of WWII called Supernova in the East. It goes into the learning curve of aircraft carriers by Japan and the US. There was actually a fair amount of luck involved by the US shortly after Pearl Harbor that diminished Japan's air capabilities for the rest of the war.
The way it was always presented to me in school is that the US victory was inevitable. This podcast series gives a much less biased view.