Robert A. Theobald

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Robert A. Theobald

United States military officer

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Pearl Harbor attack
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Robert A. Theobald, a Pacific task force commander whose career was sidelined after he clashed with superiors and failed to challenge the Japanese attacks on Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. In The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor (1954), Theobald asserted that Roosevelt “by unrelenting…
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Robert A. Theobald, a Pacific task force commander whose career was sidelined after he clashed with superiors and failed to challenge the Japanese attacks on Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. In The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor (1954), Theobald asserted that Roosevelt “by unrelenting…
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