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Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, one of the last members of Hawaiian royalty, offered her sprawling villa near Honolulu to the U.S.O. as a rest home and recreation center. Hawaii's Republican National Committeewoman for 12 years, she is the mother of ex-playboy Prince David, given a ten-year manslaughter sentence in 1937 for cutting his half-caste sweetheart to death...
...There was one hint as to a possible reason for the attack. Three days before it. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. in a press conference at his office in the Hawaiian Islands, said: "We have every expectation of holding these islands." He may possibly have thought then that the Japanese were assembling transports and supply vessels in the Marshalls and Gilberts for an invasion of the Hawaiian group: if so, the task force he sent was designed to break up such preparations...
From that exalted eyrie where top-ranking U.S. Air Force officers clasp the crag, a new eaglet stretched his wings and soared. Succeeding to the job which Lieut. General Delos Emmons left when he took over the Hawaiian Department, Major General Carl Spaatz became Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command...
...October 16, 1941, the Commanding General, Hawaiian Department [Short], and the Commander in Chief of the Fleet [Kimmel], were advised by the War and Navy Departments of the changes in the Japanese Cabinet, and of the possibility of an attack by Japan on Great Britain and the United States...
...preceding the Japanese attack, the responsible commanders held no ... discussion of the meaning of the warnings and orders sent them. The attitude of each demonstrated a lack of appreciation of the responsibilities vested in them and inherent in their positions as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and Commanding General, Hawaiian Department...