Word: kimmel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years after he was retired and charged with dereliction of duty, and almost 13 years after a court of inquiry cleared him of blame, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 75, four-star commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, was honored by his Annapolis classmates. Last week, in an election hailed by the Naval Academy's alumni magazine as "an affirmation of faith by those who have known him well for more than 50 years," Admiral Kimmel was named alumni president of the class...
...main strength will lie in the sprints, the 200, the butterfly, and the two relays. In the 50, Chouteau Dyer (22.3) will once again contend with Rex Aubrey (22.2) and Sandy Gideonse (22.4) of Yale. But he will also face the added competition of Ohio State's Jim Kimmel (22.3), Northwestern's Al Kuhn (22.6), and Stanford's Robin Moore...
...System. Everything considered, the admiral has presented his case with brevity, restraint and a quarterdeck command of facts now long on the record. The U.S. was unready at Pearl Harbor, says Kimmel, but not by his fault. The trouble, he says, was that Washington never told him what was cooking or where and when it might boil over. All through November, for instance, Washington was reading intercepted messages in which the Japanese consulate in Hawaii sent Tokyo pinpoint locations of Pearl Harbor warships. Says Kimmel: "The information received during the ten days preceding the attack clearly pointed to the Fleet...
...Warning. It is clear that-possibly to safeguard the secret that the U.S. was cracking Japanese codes-Washington did not give Kimmel all the information he needed. But special commissions, Army and Navy boards and congressional committees have gone through all this, and it is a fact that on Nov. 27, 1941 the Navy Department sent Kimmel a formal "war warning." He might have been more alert, might, for instance, have ordered distant air searches when his own intelligence officer told him that he had suddenly lost four Japanese carriers, i.e., could not place them at their usual empire bases...
...what Kimmel says makes sense. It is easy to be sympathetic with the unhappy admiral. It is harder to go along with him when he concludes: "I cannot excuse those in authority in Washington for what they did . . . In my book they must answer on the Day of Judgment like any other criminal...