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John L Sullivan,*Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and rumored successor to Secretary Forrestal), lent an influential hand to the rescue of a disabled sloop off the New Hampshire shore. Weekending at Little Boars Head, he reported the craft's plight to the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and a Navy...
Actually the Navy court wound up by exonerating Kimmel, who would stand cleared were it not for sharply worded addenda by Fleet Admiral Ernest King and Navy Secretary Forrestal. Strongly dissenting, both declined to let Husband Kimmel off the hook.
In the 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...
Whatever the mannerly Navy court thought, Forrestal and King were sternly convinced, and ruled that both Kimmel and Stark were guilty of "faults of omission" and unfit to hold "any position in the U.S. Navy which requires the exercise of superior judgment." Both officers' careers were thus ignominiously ended...
Ever since David Bushnell invented the first underwater warship (the Turtle, which tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up the British frigate Eagle in New York harbor in 1776), naval men have dreamed of a true submarine, i.e., one which would practically never have to come to the surface. Last week Secretary...