Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Harold R. Stark, recently commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe (where he was made an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire), but on Pearl Harbor Day Chief of Naval Operations...
...almost a year the official Army & Navy reports on Pearl Harbor had lain under cover, marked "Secret." Last week, the excuse was good no longer: President Truman made them public...
...fortunately south and west of Pearl Harbor-were the U.S.'s only combat-fit carriers in the Pacific, the Lexington and the Enterprise, with a combined complement of only 180-odd planes. Like sitting ducks in Pearl Harbor were eight of the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, in a condition of only partial readiness. This the Japs knew; they were well supplied with every detail of intelligence about their target...
...force struck. Adjacent to Pearl Harbor, mother submarines launched two-man subs. From a point due north of Oahu, carriers launched some 300 planes piloted by the best of Jap naval aviators. For the Japs it was a long chance, but well worth the gamble. Below them lay the Americans, who "had gambled upon having time for preparation that did not exist...
...Navy's book of futures (Forrestal noted) it was written down that a declaration of war might be preceded by: "1) a surprise attack on ships in Pearl Harbor, 2) a surprise submarine attack on ships in operating area, 3) a combination of these two." And yet, even on Dec. 2, when Kimmel's Fleet Intelligence officer told him he had suddenly lost track of four Jap carriers (which they were checking on by radio). Kimmel was not alarmed...