PEARL HARBOUR LOSSES
GOULD HAVE BEEN REDUCED WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Losses at Pearl Harbour would have been materially reduced and the Japanese Fleet might have suffered considerable damage had Admiral Kimmel carried out “ perfectly specific and entirely clear orders ” given him on November 27, 1941, to prepare for a possible attack, said Admiral Turner at* the Pearl Harbour inquiry. “We know by experience that a carrier-based attack is difficult to stop - and a considerable part of the Japanese attacking force might have got in” he said, “but it could have been broken up and had considerably less effect. We had a total of 185 fighter aircraft. The Japanese had 112. The American Fleet had undergone many months of preparation for just such an attack, and within the limits of materials I felt confident that the fleet was prepared and ready for it.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26034, 24 December 1945, Page 7
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