In the last year of his life, Navy Secretary Frank Knox gave an order to Commander Walter Karig and Lieut. Welbourn Kelley of the department's Office of Public Relations: "Tell the story of the Navy's part in this war . . . particularly those early days, when the Japs were having things their own way, and when we had to examine every scrap of information with a microscope for fear it would be helpful to the enemy." Karig, a reservist and former Washington newsman, and Kelley, former radio scriptwriter and author of a melodramatic novel, So Fair a House,...
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