When he testified at Admiral Husband Kimmel's hearing after the Pearl Harbor debacle he summed up American carrier tactics being to "get to the other fellow with everything you have as fast as you can and to dump it on him."
Da han vidnede ved admiral Husband Kimmels høring efter fiaskoen ved Pearl Harbor opsummerede han den amerikanske hangarskibstaktik som: "ramme de andre med alt hvad du kan, så hurtigt du kan hælde det ud over dem."