Up to the witness stand stepped Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the Army's War Plans Division in 1941, to accept full blame for one of Pearl Harbor's most egregious errors. On Nov. 27, a sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotagewhich was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington. Why?
Explained General Gerow: he thought the Short message was an answer...
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