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   XPost: alt.history.what-if, sci.military.naval, soc.veterans   
   From: rrostrom@comcast.net   
      
   "Byker"  wrote:   
      
   > I dunno about Vinegar Joe, but Adm. Ernest King was   
   > clearly the worst Admiral in WWII.   
      
   Don't be silly.   
      
   There were literally hundreds of admirals in WW I,   
   probably over a thousand in all the powers combined.   
      
   Many of these were elderly timeservers, or mediocrities   
   put in charge of some harbor installation or support   
   function (ordnance, construction, training, personnel).   
      
   King may have been stiff-necked, rude, and gratuitously   
   hostile to the Army and the British. There's no question   
   that he made some mistakes. But he presided over the   
   devolopment of the largest navy in history, which after   
   the early stage of the Pacific won every battle or campaign.   
   --   
   Nous sommes dans une pot de chambre, et nous y serons emmerdés.   
   --- General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot at Sedan, 1870.   
      
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