Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed the greatest concentration of water-borne air power in war's history-Vice Admiral Mitscher's fast carrier task groups...
...Pitiful Best. The lessons that had gone into the making of a great captain were first learned in an ignorance shared by most of the U.S.'s professional soldiers. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Douglas MacArthur had 35 Flying Fortresses (early models without tail guns) and 90 fighters, mostly of indifferent capabilities. At the time, this air force seemed of some value, just as the eight battleships moored at Pearl Harbor seemed a powerful battle line. But almost half of that air force was destroyed on the ground on the first day, the rest swiftly whittled away...
...possibility of many another such hearing was indicated last week by a Navy announcement of discharges under less than honorable conditions. Since Pearl Harbor: 10,936 undesirable, 15,479 for bad conduct, 2,007 dishonorable...
...amount of the Administration's responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster was up again last week. Republican Representative Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, in a speech at St. Paul repeated the oft-made charge that responsibility for the disaster rested solely with President Roosevelt and other high Administration officials. His specific claim: that they had six hours' notice of the time & place for the attack, but did not warn the Army & Navy in Hawaii. Said he: a new secret report had been completed by the new Navy Court of Inquiry, but was being "suppressed" by the Administration...
...Boston Charles B. Rugg, counsel for Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, issued a statement saying that Forrestal's "suggested procedure is a spacious pretext to keep the truth of Pearl Harbor hidden from Dec. 7, 1941 to Nov. 7, 1944. This inconsistent and dilatory procedure is unjust to Admiral Kimmel...