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3/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 3/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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3/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 3/8: 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.

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This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Batcher with Professor Craig Simon's,

0:39.0

Mertis Professor of History from the US Naval Academy. Nimitz at war, command leadership

0:44.1

from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, the relationships of the flag officers and the generals as they

0:50.8

prosecute the Pacific War, which it was secondary in the minds of the joint chiefs of staff,

0:57.6

the British and American working together.

0:59.7

Your first, your first, Ernest King, however, had other ideas. And Ernest King has sent

1:05.2

Chester Nimitz to Pearl Harbor to command this rotating story of ships and men and aircraft.

1:12.8

Now King says, Carl C. and Midway are such a success. We need to go on the offensive somewhere.

1:21.0

They do not have adequate what is called C.Lift. They do not have adequate what are called

1:25.6

forces, divisions. However, they're going to get out there even though they're short,

1:31.7

what Nimitz says repeatedly in the Professor's book, do the best we can with what we've got.

1:36.6

So we go to Lagi, which we know as Guadalcanal, the Marines land and the fleet that accompanies

1:43.4

them. They ships that accompany them cannot stay all the time. They have other duties and

1:49.0

they don't want to be tied to a shore to make themselves vulnerable. These are very risky

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