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

Mardis Professor of History from the US Naval Academy,

Nimitz at War, Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, the relationships of the

flag officers and the generals as they prosecute the Pacific War, which it was secondary in the

minds of the joint chiefs of staff, the British and American working together. Your first,

your first, Ernest King, however, had other ideas and Ernest King has sent

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

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

They do not have adequate what is called sea lift. They do not have adequate what are called forces,

divisions. However, they're going to get out there even though they're short, what Nimitz says

repeatedly in the professor's book, do the best we can with what we've got. So we go to Lagi,

which we know as Guadalcanal, the Marines land and the fleet that accompanies them, the ships that

accompany them cannot stay all the time. They have other duties and they don't want to be tied to

a shore to make themselves vulnerable. These are very risky moments again, professor. What was Nimitz's

thinking of Guadalcanal? Did he want to wait or was he okay with the idea of going now even

though we have inadequate resources? Nimitz did indeed plan on taking the offensive as soon

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