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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
I don't believe so. Take it for what it is, but this is what Wikipedia says:
Whatever was intended, there was other targets at pearl Harbour, had they been targeted, that would have crippled the American fleet.
Looking further down the wiki article it says that the tragets were the large ships that happened to be there (whether it happened to be Battleships or Carriers)
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Every bomber was given a specific group of ships to go after accompanied by photo's taken by reconassance these photos included carriers. Even if you look at the tracking boards on the japanese carriers they had Icons and hit counts for the three fleet carriers that they thought would be there. The Japanese intent was to roll of the battleships and carriers which would force the American Navy to for a period of time be a frigate navy built around cruisers destroyers, frigates and subs.
The expectation was that the carriers were there, but they had no intelligence for several days before the attack.