1/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
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1/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
https://www.amazon.com/Nimitz-War-Command-Leadership-Harbor-ebook/dp/B09Y64QMZT
Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitztransformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history.
Facing demands from Washington to mount an early offensive, he had first to revive the depressed morale of the thousands of sailors, soldiers, and Marines who served under him. And of course, he also confronted a formidable and implacable enemy in the Imperial Japanese Navy, which, until the Battle of Midway, had the run of the Pacific
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| 0:40.0 | Nimitz at war command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. |
| 0:45.0 | It's a pleasure to welcome Professor Craig Simon's, |
| 0:49.0 | a meritus professor from the US Naval Academy, |
| 0:52.0 | writing of a Manchester Nimitz who was principal in the Pacific War of 1941 to 1945. |
| 1:02.0 | The story is told from the point of view of command leadership, hence the subtitle. |
| 1:08.0 | This is the story as I've never read it before, |
| 1:12.0 | not concentrating on the battles, the moments to moments of the drama, |
| 1:16.0 | the disappointments and the grief, |
| 1:18.0 | but on the relationships of the flag officers and their equivalent in the US Army. |
| 1:24.0 | Professor Avery Good evening to you. |
| 1:26.0 | Congratulations. It is Christmas 1941. |
| 1:29.0 | Chester Nimitz arrives in Pearl Harbor. |
| 1:32.0 | What is his mission at that moment? |
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