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...memorandum was placed in evidence showing that Captain Zacharias had personally warned Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in the summer of 1941, that the Japs would start war with a sneak air raid on Pearl Harbor on a weekend-"probably Sunday morning...
...accurate prediction was one of the few nuggets of new information produced by the investigation in a week of prospecting old diggings: ¶ Admiral Harold R. Stark, 1941 Chief of Naval Operations, admitted that he did not believe Pearl Harbor would be attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department...
...just as positive that Admiral Kimmel had been prepared for "just such an attack." Admiral Turner testified that he had given him "perfectly specific and entirely clear" orders in a warning message on Nov. 27 ; nothing additional should have been necessary. If, said Admiral Turner, the Pacific commander had complied with those orders, the U.S. losses would have been materially reduced-"and there was a good chance that we could have inflicted considerable damage on the Japanese fleet." (Cracked Pennsylvania's Democratic Rep. John Murphy: "I have never seen a Monday morning quarterback who ever lost a game...
...positive about war and where the blow would fall, why were all the other topmost admirals out of step with him? Admiral Turner considered himself the chief adviser of Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations. But "Betty" Stark, in mid-October 1941, had written to Kimmel: "I do not believe that the Japs are going to sail into us." Reminded of that letter, Kelly Turner was unperturbed. Said he: "I was very astonished when I first saw that." He also volunteered the information that Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, then head of Intelligence, had said...
...Admiral Kimmel would get his chance to reply-after New Year...