Word: kimmel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admirals who have made war on the modern seas, none was ever in the fix of Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, by title Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet; by specific function: Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...
Blue-eyed, broad-shouldered Admiral Kimmel had been struck with war's most effective weapon: surprise. His whole mission had been vitally changed. He needed to re-establish the lifeline between the U.S. mainland and Admiral Thomas C. ("Tommy'') Hart's Asiatic Fleet along the line Honolulu-Midway-Wake-Guam-Manila. But for the moment his mission was mainly defensive. It was almost as thoroughly defensive as the mission of Lieut. General Walter C. Short, commander of Honolulu's Army defenses, who also fell victim to surprise, but who could probably blame...
...stands on his head. While the tension gathered last week, he went on with his exercises and his appointed rounds, ruled his fleet. Not so confident of the future as he were some of his pals in Washington. Said one of them pessimistically: "Right now, I think that Admiral Kimmel has a much better chance of living to a ripe old age than Tommy Hart...
...might bring in Japan. If Germany hoped, by such acts as the sinking of the Reuben James, to show Japan that she could keep the U.S. busy in the Atlantic, obvious U.S. strategy was to be unshaken by Atlantic defeats or victories. Pondering the tasks that Admiral Husband Kimmel's Pacific Fleet would face (see cut), strategists thought it likely that a declared war in the Pacific would have the same undisclosed clashes, the same brief engagements of small Fleet units, the same wearing uncertainty at home...
Admirals King, Kimmel and Hart had all but complete discretion in selecting their key officers. In battle order of succession to the Fleet command, Admiral King's topmost subordinates are: Rear Admiral David McDougal Le Breton, 56, a greying, bandy-legged bantam who holds six decorations. He is generally rated one of the Navy's ablest tacticians, by his partisans is considered a coming CINCUS (Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet). His disparagers say that he is adept at polishing topside apples. He commands the Atlantic Fleet's single division of three old battleships (Arkansas, Texas, New York...