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TIME'S printers accomplished a notable mechanical job in printing a four-color cover of Admiral Kimmel (over a million copies) after the war broke. Only way it was possible to deliver TIME on schedule in the East was to charter two transport planes to ferry 300,000 copies of the cover (five tons) from Chicago to Philadelphia.-Publisher...
...Inquiry Board met (before flying to Hawaii), the President acted again, removed the three commanders of Naval, Army and Air Forces in Hawaii. Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, 59, was relieved of his title as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (CINCUS) and his duties as Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Lieut. General Walter Campbell Short, 61, was relieved as Commander of the Hawaiian Department. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 59, was relieved as Hawaiian Air Force Commander. In their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy...
Spear & Shaft. The spearpoint of U.S. Naval effort in the Pacific is the Asiatic Fleet based on Manila. The shaft of the spear is the line between the Philippines and Honolulu. The fist that wields the spear is Admiral Kimmel's fleet, based among the naval shops and the complicated waterways of Pearl Harbor. As long as the Navy could maintain this base, the spear could strike where it was aimed in the Far East. So strategists, thinking of the shaft in terms of the supply it must carry, called it the lifeline of the Pacific...
Punch & Reel. The enemy had struck its first blow. Only ten months ago Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel was jumped over 46 flag officers to take the senior job afloat in the U.S. Navy. It was a strange commentary on the memories of civilians and Navymen alike that after Port Arthur* this blow should have come as a surprise. Long before Hitler, the Japanese Navy had shown what the swift thrust, before declaration of war, could...
...Wake, stomped toward the rest of the crowd with impassioned, fiery eyes. But the fighters who had been hit were getting up; the rest were waiting with knives out. Japan was going to be busy, perhaps for a long time, certainly in a lot of places. To "Hubby" Kimmel and the Navy, as to 130,000,000 plain U.S. citizens, only one finish was conceivable...