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...Navy Lieut. Manning M. Kimmel, son of the retired Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, after Pearl Harbor listed for court-martial, went the Silver Star for submarine counterblows against his father's back-stabbers...
Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, facing court-martial (but probably not till the war's end) for alleged laxity in his command of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, got a job with the Manhattan firm of Frederic R. Harris, Inc., naval designers, doing "special work which the Navy insists must be kept secret...
...account of what various commentators were saying about the U.S. people (Smug, Slothful, Asleep?) brought an outburst of letters from the people themselves. Many letters-to-TIME have reflected indignation over such issues as the Roberts report on Pearl Harbor, the retirement applications of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the Lafayette (ex-Normandie) fire, pensions for Congressmen, Mrs. Roosevelt and OCD. But the latest batch -more than 100 of them- went much deeper. Some excerpts...
...official scapegoats for the Pearl Harbor disaster-Major General Walter C. Short, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel-went into voluntary retirement last week. But not to batten peacefully on their retirement pay ($6,000 a year). The Army & Navy were preparing to court-martial them. Just when the trials would come off was left hazy. The courts-martial would be held, the War and Navy Departments announced, when "the public interest and safety" permit...
...Admiral Kimmel and Lieut. General Short...