Robert Alfred Theobald

Robert Alfred " fuzzy " Theobald ( born January 25, 1884 in San Francisco, California, † May 13, 1957 ) was a Rear Admiral (German: Rear Admiral ) of the United States Navy, who published a widely acclaimed book in 1947.

Life

He was the son of George Theobald and Hattie Caroline Yoell. Theobald graduated from the United States Naval Academy ( Naval Academy ), which he completed in 1907. In 1939 he was appointed chief of staff Claude C. Bloch and shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the Commander of the Pacific Fleet destroyer.

In 1942 he was promoted to Rear Admiral and it was on May 17, 1942, the command of the North Pacific area of ​​operations, particularly the Association of Task Force 8, transfer, lay the basis in Alaska. After a few minor setbacks suffered by his association against the Japanese fleet, among others, by the Japanese conquest of the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska, Theobald was replaced on January 4, 1943 by Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid.

He got up to his retirement from the service in 1945, no other command posts, but won by the publication of his book The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Background of the Pearl Harbor Attack ( German: " The final secret of Pearl Harbor, the backgrounds of the attack on Pearl Harbor in Washington " ) some attention from the public. In this book, he accused the Roosevelt administration to have abused the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a provocation for the entry of the United States into the Second World War.

Robert Theobald Jr. (1909-1989), the son of Robert Alfred Theobald, completed in 1931, also the United States Naval Academy and served as a Captain in the U.S. Navy.

Publications

  • Robert A. Theobald: The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor. The Washington contribution to the Japanese attack. Devin - Adair, New York NY, 1954 ( English) ( German: .. The final secret of Pearl Harbor, Washington's share of the Japanese attack reapers, New York NY 1963).

Swell

  • Thomas Parrish, Samuel LA Marshall ( ed.): The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II, Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1978 ( English).
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