Walter Short
Walter Campbell Short (March 30, 1880 – March 9, 1949) was a major general in the United States Army and the U.S. military commander responsible for the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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