page_title: Walter Short
section_title: Japanese attack
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Short / Japanese attack
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Walter Short from http://www.nps.gov/usar/photos1/PR-297.htm License: Information presented on this website, unless otherwise indicated , is considered in the public domain. - http://www.nps.gov/disclaimer.htm
context_page_description: Walter Campbell Short was a lieutenant 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.
context_section_description: On December 17, 1941, General Short was removed from command of the U.S. Army's Hawaiian Department as a result of the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands.  Short was ordered back to Washington, D.C. by Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. In disgrace, he was reduced in rank from his temporary rank of lieutenant general to his permanent rank of major general, since his temporary rank was contingent on his command. 
  On February 28, 1942, he retired from the Army and then headed the traffic department at a Ford Motor Company plant in Dallas, Texas.   He briefly returned to active duty from October 3, 1945 to February 28, 1946.  He retired in 1946 and died in 1949 in Dallas of a chronic heart ailment.
caption: Short as a lieutenant general
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