Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the whole story of Pearl Harbor would now be told in public. The Congressional investigation, that had apparently been headed for the shoals of political recrimination, had now gone about on a steady course toward full and complete inquiry...
...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...
Others who would help piece the story together: General George Marshall, Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the war plans division; Admiral Harold R. Stark, then Chief of Naval Operations; Admiral William F. Halsey, who was leading a task force toward Pearl Harbor when the Japs struck; Grace Tully, personal secretary to Franklin Roosevelt and guardian of his personal papers; Secretaries Hull, Welles and Grew and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who in his 1944 campaign had abjured all reference to the cracking of the Jap code, on the suggestion of the U.S. Army...
Marine Smith sailed south on the Lexington, was aboard her when she was sunk in the Coral Sea. Rescued and taken back to Pearl Harbor, he was put aboard the North Carolina. Then he got shore duty, and became a member of Carlson's Raiders...
Marine Smith fought on at Peleliu, was shipped back to Pearl Harbor, for another breather, then shipped out again for the Leyte and Luzon campaigns. He was sent home to California ("They said I was tired and worn out") but he got back in time for the Okinawa campaign and the last days...