Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
What about Savo Island?
He might have excepted that because it antedates Pearl Harbor, though the second sentence seems to emphasize all time rather than pre-Pearl Harbor. Savo really was a debacle, wasn't it? And it is not as though the Java Sea hadn't happened. The USN was, or at least should have been, a LOT more respectful of both the IJN's night-fighting drill and the 615mm torps.