And I Was There by Edwin Layton

“Retaliation came too late to save the battleships. Kimmel stood by the window of his office at the submarine base, his jaw set in stony anguish. As he watched the disaster across the harbor unfold with terrible fury, a spent .50-caliber machine gun bullet crashed through the glass. It brushed the admiral before it clanged to the floor. It cut his white jacket and raised a welt on his chest.
”’It would have been merciful had it killed me,’ Kimmel murmured to the communications officer, Commander Maurice ‘German’ Curts.”
-Adm. Edwin Layton, 1984
”To certain individuals of small mind and overweaning ambition, there is no greater insult than to be proved wrong.”

-Capt. Tommy Dyer