Word: kimmel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Walter Campbell Short (ret.), 69, commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart ailment; in Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...
...departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure at Pearl Harbor was that he and his staff thought the enemy would stick to what the Americans regarded as so sound a strategic plan...
Halsey's explanation of the Pearl Harbor fiasco will strike most readers as being naive or evasive. He ignores the evidence of Annapolis Classmate Kimmel's laxness (borne out by one of the photographs in Halsey's book, TIME, Oct. 27), writes: "Who, then, is to blame? . . . The attack succeeded because Admiral Kimmel and General Short could not give Pearl Harbor adequate protection. They could not give it because they did not have it to give. . . . The blame for Pearl Harbor rests squarely on the American people and nowhere else...
...Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...
...Admiral Kimmel asked how I thought this air attack could be prevented. I told him, 'Admiral, you will have to have patrols out at least five hundred miles daily.' He replied . . . 'Well, of course we have neither the personnel nor material to do that.' I pondered for a moment, then added: 'Admiral, you'd better get them, because that is what's coming.' " (Kimmel later testified that he could remember no such conversation...