Word: kimmelization
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...morning of Pearl Harbor itself, Zacharias was at sea in command of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City. Ten months earlier, however, he had gone to call on Admiral Kimmel, "to lay before him my analysis and perhaps to place my knowledge of Japanese psychology at his disposal. . . . I told the Admiral . . . that if Japan decided on war with us she would open hostility with an air attack . . . probably on a Sunday morning...
...took direct exception to the majority's conclusions: 1) that the Japanese were not tricked or provoked into the attack; 2) that Army & Navy commands in Hawaii (headed by Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter Short) were remiss in failing "to effect a state of readiness"; 3) that the Army War Plans Division under Lieut (then Brigadier) General Leonard T. Gerow was lax in failing to prod General Short into greater readiness...
...fact that high officials knew an attack was coming and the more disturbing fact that their conclusions were not turned over to the right people. (Said Franklin Roosevelt on Dec. 6: "This means war," but at Pearl Harbor Kimmel and Short had no inkling of their Commander's thoughts...
...four years and a month Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel had waited to tell his story of the Pearl Harbor disaster. Now he had his chance...
...Said Kimmel: "No reasonable man in my circumstances would have considered the war warning was intended to suggest ... likelihood of an air attack. ... [There was no] dereliction of duty on my part." But his questioners drew out the fact that the day after the "war warning," he had ordered depth bombing of any suspectedly hostile submarines. Admiral Kimmers temper began showing signs of wear...