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GEN.111'ARSIIALL (1956
A1)51. STARK (19461 GEN. GEROW 11950)
AI)51. HIh1M1t1.L (1946)
THIS WAS DEC. 7, 1941, as Pearl Harbor went up in flames. The faces are the four men' still
Kimmel are shown as they testified before Conongressional report. Adm. Stark and Adm.
alive of the nine blamed for the disaster in a egress, the others in more recent poses.
Who Was To Blarne For Pearl Harbor?
By Douglas Larsen
NEA Staff. Correspondent
WASHINGTON - (NEA) —
"Why didn't I get• all of the in-
tercepted Japanese messages?"
"Why did the lieutenant ignore
imy radar ,sighting i'
"Why was the final warning
sent by Western Union instead of
the Signal Corps?"
"And why has no one ever
been punished for the shocking
neglect of Pearl Harbor which
caused' close to 3,000 deaths and
virtual obliteration of a fleet
and air force?"
Fifteen years later such ques-
tions still burn in the minds of
the men to whom fate gave key
roles on that black day in Ameri-
can history.
. Millions of words of congres-
sional testimony and scores of
books and articles — even now
being written — still leave some
of the vital questions un-
answered.
Interviews with those key fig-
ures who are still alive, scattered
all over the U.S., reveal a dim-
ming of some memories, dismay
at being reminded of the mis-
takes they made, outright irri-
tation at questions which open
old wounds — and some new in-
formation.
Each one, however, has a ques-
tion or two which still gnaws
at his conscience and which, if
answered, might relieve a tor-
tured memory.
Of the nine men accused of
negligence or blame for Pearl
Harbor in a congressionalreport
only four are alive. They are
Gen. George C. Marshall, who
was Army. Chief of Staff; Adm.
Harold R. Stark, who was Chief
of Naval Operations; Gen. Leon-
ard T. Gerow, who was Army
Asst. Chief of Staff, and Adm.
Husband E. Kimmel, then head
of the Pacific Fleet. All but Gen.
Marshall granted interviews for
this NEA Service . review of the
event.
Those dead include Franklin D.
Roosevelt; Henry L. Stimson, his
Secretary of War; Frank Knox,
his Secretary of the Navy; Cor-
dell Hull, his Secretary of State,
Ind Gen. Walter C. Short, com-
mander of Hawaiian troops.
At 73, Adm. Kimmel is alert
and spry, retired with his wife
In a rambling modern home on
the edge of a golf course in Gro-
ton, Conn.
"I don't carry Pearl Harbor
around on my back any more,"
he says quietly, "but they keep
reminding me of it." Much of
hismail still concerns that day.
Ile has written a book blaming
lack at information from Wash-
ington
ashington for his having the fleet
bottled up in the harbor, making
It an ideal target.
"For example," he recalls, "on
Nov. 18, 1941, Washington de-
coded a message from Tokyo
ordering a Japanese agent to re-
port details' of vessels anchored.
n Pearl Harbor. Why wasn't 1
told of this?"
He adds:
"As late as Dec. 5, if I had all
of the information that the Navy
in Washington had, I could have
rent the fleet to sea. Even on the
morning of Dec. 7 the Navy had
time to warn me so that I could
have moved the light forces out
of the harbor and prepared for
the attack."
The man responsible for not
supplying Adm. Iimtnel with
this information is Actin. Stark,
retired on a farm in Pennsyl-
vania, and also , in good health
and spirits.
"I have' chosen never to an -
over or comment on the charges
in Adm. Kimmel's book," '1e says
somewhat sadly and then .•adds
with some heat; "I can 'only say
that it's hindsight --- second
guessing, of which there has been
too much about Pearl Harbor."
Joe Lockard, the soldier who
spotted the attacking Jap planes
on his radar that fatal morning,
only to have the information ig-
nored by the only officer on duty
in the warning center, is pow a
draftsman in an electronics plant
in Williamsport, Pa. He's quiet -
spoken and a little reluctant to
recall the whole thing.
'It's all sort of hazy today,"
he says, "but there's no counting
the times I've wondered how
many lives might have been
saved and ships left on. top of
the water if .the information be-
fore my eyes on that morning
had .been, used properly." .
Joe was at a radar station
called Opana.- He called to re-
port a 'large pulse' on his scope
which was not ,accounted for by
flights of U.S. planes. On duty
in the warning center several
miles away was Lt. Kermit A.
Tyler.
"It's all right, there's nothing
further you can do," Tyler told
Lockard, who was then a private.
Tyler and Lockard have never
met face-to-face to this day. Ty-
ler is now a lieutenant colonel in
the Air Force at Ent. Air Force.
Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. It's
the headquarters of the Contin-
ental Air Defense Command.
"I was not alarmed at Lock-
ard's message because there was
no feeling that this could be.
enemy aircraft," he recalls today,
also reluctantly. "It's obviously
not a pleasant memory even after
15 years."
Explaining its. effect on his
career, he says, "Nearly all of my
contemporaries are in the lieu-
tenant colonel or colonel grades
and there is nothing in my record
to indicate that this incident has
had any effect one way or an-
other."
Joe Lockard still wonders why
his "big pulse" was ignored.
Former Sen. Homer Ferguson,
one of the most aggressive mem-
bers of the congressional com-
mittee that investigated Pearl
Harbor, is today a member of
the U.S. Court of Military 'Ap-
peals.
"There are many unanswered
questions about Pearl Harbor,"
he says, "but President Tru -
man's order restricting the com-
mittee from getting at some of
the facts prevented the whole
truth from being told at the
the time,
"It's doubttul now that the pub-
lic will ever find out all about
Pearl Harbor."
One of t h e key unanswered
questions Judge Ferguson poses
is why Gen. Marshall's final
warning to Gen. Short at Pearl
Harbor•on Dec. was sent by Wes-
tern Union instead of through
military channels,
BIG WHEELS—Man at right (ar-
row) is dwarfed by huge center
hull sections for the Triton, big-
gest submarine ever to be built.
Under construction at the Elec-
tric Boat yards, the Triton will
be powered by two atomic re-
actors. Spokes of "wheels" are
temporary supports for the cir-
cular frame.
Among all of the persons in-
terviewed only Geri. Gerow, re=
tired from the Army and a bank-
er in Petersburg, Va., and Adm.
Stark believe that there are no
unanswered questions left today.
"It's all done and I think the
public knows all there is to
know about it," Gen.. Gerow
says.
(Next Week; Some of the Answ
(Next Week:.
Some of the Answers)
Sherlock Cohen
No one can handle Jewish
dialect better than ,Ezra Stone.
One of his favorites concerns
two cloak-and-suiters.. -
"How are you Cohen?" cries
Lapidus. "Where are you going?"
"Me, I'm going to Chicago."
"So am I."
"And what business are . you
in?"
"In the cloak and . suit line,
Coehn. And you?"
"The same thing.".
"Say, Cohen, do you remem-
ber the swell parties we used to
have at Rose . Lipschitz's house
in Brooklyn?"
"Boy those' were the days."
"You said it."
They talked for. a while, _re-
miniscing about old time, but
somehow, Cohen wasn't satisfied
with this set-up, and he begins
to think 'to himself:
"This guy :Lapidus is a cute
fellow. He tells me he's going
to Chicago, but why 'should he
tell me the truth? He's in the
same business. I'll bet he's go-
ing to Cleveland. Why should
he go to Cleveland? He must
be . going to see Ruger Bros.
They probably: are going to. give
a big order of dresses and he's
trying to get thewhole thing.
"No, that can't be. He's a
pretty prosperous manufacturer;
he wouldn't go to see Ruger
himself., He'd send a salesman.
Maybe he's going to Miller
Bros.? No, they ain't buying
anything this season, their buyer
just. left New York. Then it
must be Lipschitz and Son... .
But then, again, he wouldn't go
himself; he'd send a salesman.
.. Say, wait a minute. .. That
old man Lipschitz is hose Lip-
schitz's father, the girl he used
to go with in Brooklyn. I'll bet
he's still nuts about Rose. I'll
bet he's going 'there to =get en-
gaged to be married to Rosie."
With a sly smile he turns to
his friend.
"Congratulations, Lapidus."
"How did you know?" cries
Lappie, amazed.
."I t was obvious," says Cohen.
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