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After 30 days of testimony and bickering, the Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee last week got back to the man in the middle of the mess. The man: Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet on the fatal...
Twangy, caustic Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner-in 1941 chief of the Navy war plans division, in 1942 the man who put the Marines ashore on Guadalcanal-put grey, heavy-jowled Admiral Kimmel at the very core of blame...
Leathery Kelly Turner is seldom assailed by doubts. He had none about Kimmel. Other admirals have testified to their doubts that war would come, their uncertainties over where the Japs might strike. Not Kelly Turner. He had thought, as early as July 1941, that war was inevitable. He not only thought that Hawaii was a "probable" target, but also that the attack would come...
...Navy high command warned Admiral Husband E. Kimmel on Dec. 3 that Jap diplomats and consuls all over the world were destroying their papers and codes. General Miles did not ask the Navy to pass this message along to General Short at Honolulu. Said he: "That was not considered necessary. ... I believed that the Navy messages were being transmitted to the Army in Hawaii and vice versa...
...Pacific commander, and the last CINCUS, was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel-who was to hear the roar of Japanese bombs exploding amid the anchored fleet...