My admiral dindu nuffin!
>Who, then, is to blame? Look at it logically: the attack succeeded because Admiral Kimmel and General Short could not give Pearl Harbor adequate protection. They could not give it because they did not have it to give. They did not have it because Congress would not authorize it. Congress is elected by the American people. And the blame for Pearl Harbor rests squarely on the American people and nowhere else.
https://archive.org/details/AdmiralHalseysStory
He is correct, the Americans lack the spirit of the warrior to properly prepare naval bases.
Here he is touching a child.
What kind of dipshit blames an attack on the defenders?
Look at it logically.
No, look, even if Pearl Harbor was made into some great bastion of American power, that would not have deterred a determined attacker dead-set on mauling the fleet. They'd have just brought more toys to the party, knowing in advance what they'd have to accomplish their goal.
The 'fault' for an attack's success, barring some special incompetence on the part of the defenders, lies with those who planned the attack.
>They'd have just brought more toys to the party
Like what?
horrors beyond perception
He was pushing responsibility for the poor response to the attack from the navy to everyone else. He notes the lack of patrol aircraft and a large number of Japanese being local.
Basing the fleet at pearl, lack of torpedo nets, failure to respond to Japanese aircraft being picked up on radar, fearing local sabotage more than attack are all civilian fault.
Had Japan defended their home islands properly, they never would have gotten nuked. Let alone twice. Pathetic.
>The blame for sailing the fleet into a typhoon rests squarely with the American people. Look at it logically: they elected President Roosevelt, who appointed the Joint Chiefs, of which the Navy's representative gave me command. They elected the Congress which voted for the war we're in and which send those ships into the Pacific.
This, how come the British Pacific Fleet was undamaged during Typhoon Cobra?
It comes down to the higher moral character of the British people.
the yanks knew all about the incoming attack
read John Tolands bookon Pearl Harbour
>read
No.
>the yanks knew all about the incoming attack
you need to read it again if you think so
>yanks knew all about the incoming attack
God, I wish. Imagine Kido Butai launching its strike only to immediately get ambushed by SBDs, torching half the Japanese carrier fleet before the war's even officially started.
Admiral Halsey was a motherfricking imbecile. I can't think of any success that was actually his doing. This is the guy who threw a temper tantrum for 30 minutes while Taffy 3 was getting slaughtered. Shit admiral. In fact most USN top brass were pants on head morons, just look at that fricktard Ernest King. Spruance was the only one worth a damn.
While it was a shitty thing to do, I don’t actually think it would have changed anything if he didn’t sulk for a little while
King was excellent. Fletcher was good. Nimitz was fair.
Turner was a power hungry dolt. McCain was an incompetent drunk. Halsey was an unstable mediocrity.
You forgot Mitscher, “The Ferocious Gnome”.
When Halsey rotated out, it was Mitscher’s Fleet.
I forget who it was, but our Sub admirals were superb. They did to Japan what the Kraut U-Boats couldn’t do to Britain.
They actually LISTENED to their boat skippers and got the defective torpedoes fixed,(no small feat in a war).
Too bad our guys didn’t have reliable torpedoes in ‘42 and ‘43. The war would have been shortened by a year.
tbf, the Germans had nearly identical issues with the G7, leading to Doenitz claiming that never has a soldier been sent to war with a more useless weapon.
Vice Admiral Lockwood was the one who really pushed for the Ordnance Bureau to get its shit together with torpedoes.
Nimitz also had extensive experience with submarines and recognized their value.
Childhood is thinking that Halsey was good.
Adulthood is realizing that he was navy's version of MacArthur minus the few good traits MacArthur had.
>positive features of dugout Doug
Like what?
Imagine being the radar operators who were didling around with it and saw the coming first wave on the screen, report it, only to be told it is propably the scheduled incoming supply planes from California just a tad early.
>not realizing the lack of US preparedness was a LIHOP strategy to give casus belli and generate popular support for an otherwise totally unpopular war.
>actually believing this moronic boomer conspiracy shit
>don't believe your lying eyes
This guy was just coping because he sailed his forces into two separate typhoons and had a spergout when Nimitz called him out on being baited at Leyte Gulf. He was valuable during the early war when the country needed aggressive tard-rage, but he should've been tactfully retired after the first typhoon incident. Spruance and Mitscher were the commanders that the US needed once it got it's shit together.