Adm. Husband Kimmel aboard USS San Francisco, 1939 (US Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 50266) 85 Years Ago—Feb. 3, 1941: US Navy establishes Pacific Fleet under Adm. Husband Kimmel, Atlantic Fleet under Adm. Ernest King, and Asiatic Fleet under Adm. Thomas Hart. Germans begin trial in St. Helier, Jersey, for 16 Frenchmen who had tried to sail for England and landed in the Channel Islands; François Scornet will be sentenced to death, the others to prison.The post Today in World War II History—February 3, 1941 first appeared on Sarah Sundin.