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...Inquiry Board met (before flying to Hawaii), the President acted again, removed the three commanders of Naval, Army and Air Forces in Hawaii. Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, 59, was relieved of his title as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (CINCUS) and his duties as Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Lieut. General Walter Campbell Short, 61, was relieved as Commander of the Hawaiian Department. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 59, was relieved as Hawaiian Air Force Commander. In their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy...
...battleship captain* had his stomach laid open by a shrapnel burst as he went from conning tower to bridge to direct his ship's fight. He fell to the deck, disdained attempts to lift him to safety, continued to command until the bridge went up in flames. Two officers attempting to save him were themselves saved only after a third officer climbed above the fire, passed a line to an adjoining battleship, another to the trapped men, thus led them to safety...
...Good. The limited extent of U.S. matériel losses was most heartening, made complete liars out of the Japanese High Command. Lost...
...some vitamins, vitamin A cannot be easily synthesized; and fish livers, from which the vitamin is extracted, have been scarce since war broke out in 1939. So Arizona's three to four thousand acres of carrots (whose harvesting began last fortnight) may be the answer to every aviation command's problem of preventing night blindness in its flyers, who tend to subsist largely on peanuts and candy...
...Francisco, where the air-raid warnings sounded in earnest, the first alarm came at night and no Army planes took off. (Said Brigadier General William O. Ryan, Chief of the Fourth Interceptor Command: "You don't send planes up unless you know what the enemy is doing and where he is going, and you don't send planes up in the dark unless you know what you are doing.") But at Mitchel Field, L.I. the alarm came in daylight, and although it was false the air force took off in good faith to defend New York City...