3/8: War end challenges: 3/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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3/8: War end challenges: 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
From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two.
Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed 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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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye in the World. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm John Batchewith, Professor Craig Simons, |
| 0:38.8 | Emeritus Professor of History from the US Naval Academy. |
| 0:41.8 | Nimitz at war, command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, |
| 0:45.2 | the relationships of the flag officers and the generals, |
| 0:49.0 | as they prosecute the Pacific War, which it was secondary in the minds of the joint |
| 0:54.3 | command, joint chiefs of staff, the British and American working together. |
| 0:59.1 | Your first, your first, Ernest King, however, had other ideas. |
| 1:03.1 | And Ernest King has sent Chester Nimitz to Pearl Harbor to command this rotating |
| 1:08.6 | story of ships and men and aircraft. |
| 1:12.2 | Now, King says, Carl C. and Midway are such a success. |
| 1:18.1 | We need to go on the offensive somewhere. |
| 1:20.4 | They do not have adequate what is called C.Lift. |
| 1:23.3 | They do not have adequate what are called forces, divisions. |
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