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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Just an add on, but there was an excellent documentary on Admiral Kimmel last night, the man disgraced and blamed for the failure to defend Pearl Harbor.
At the time of Pearl Harbor he was the CinC Pacific Fleet and a 4 star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_E._Kimmel
He was hit by a spent Japanese .50 cal bullet that struck his glasses case and he said "It would have been merciful if it had killed me"
He spent the rest of his life fighting the charge of dereliction of duty and eventually argued that he wasn't given access to Magic a program that intercepted Japanese diplomatic communications.
His son was a submarine commander in WW2 who survived a sinking only to be doused in gasoline and lit on fire by his Japanese captures. |
I follow this story and I recall that three presidents have refused to exonerate him for dereliction of duty. He died in the late 60s never having been cleared of those allegations despite having done nothing except his duty. He was a patsy. I hope that Trump clears him of blame.