Baloney. Everyone knew war was imminent and was arrayed. The USS Ward sank a midget sub an hour and 11 minutes before the air attack.
He was poorly arrayed, had no response to that and was caught flat footed.
He was a bad as MacArthur in the Philippines.
It wasn’t just a scapegoat, it was a peacetime admiral not up to the job.
MacArthur did fine in the Philippines. The gods of war just happened to side with the Japanese that morning.
At approx. 6:40 a.m., the sub was sunk. It was almost an hour later before Admiral Kimmel received a telephone call from the staff duty officer, reporting the Ward-submarine incident..........