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...front row of spectators sat two men with a special interest in the proceedings: big, heavy, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in a grey business suit, and lean, bronzed Lieut. General Walter C. Short, also in grey. Their careers were al ready wrecked. Now other men would feel the stab of fact as well as the bludgeon of political innuendoes...
...list of witnesses was impressive. First on deck will be officers who were on the scene at the time, i.e., Admiral Kimmel and General Short, followed by Admiral James Otto Richardson, stubborn prewar advocate of the theory that the Japs would be hard to beat, who was succeeded by the more optimistic Admiral Kimmel ten months before Pearl Harbor...
Whatever the mannerly Navy court thought, Forrestal and King were sternly convinced, and ruled that both Kimmel and Stark were guilty of "faults of omission" and unfit to hold "any position in the U.S. Navy which requires the exercise of superior judgment." Both officers' careers were thus ignominiously ended...
Short obediently resolved to get along. His and Kimmel's relations were cordial-despite a subsequent Collier's article by President (then Senator) Harry Truman, which represented the two as scarcely speaking...
Another reason was service red tape. Another was the complex Navy command setup in which Kimmel held two positions, Rear Admiral Claude C. Bloch held four (including command of the 14th Naval District), and a many-hatted Rear Admiral P. N. L. Bellinger held six. "Under such circumstances," said the Board, "The Army had a difficult time in determining under which of the three shells (Kimmel, Bloch or Bellinger) rested the pea of performance and responsibility...