4/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 4/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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🗓️ 11 February 2023
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4/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 4/8: 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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| 0:40.0 | Emeritus Professor of History. |
| 0:42.0 | The book is Nimitz at War, Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, |
| 0:46.0 | the decision of the flag officers. |
| 0:48.2 | Gormley has struggled to provide for the US Marine Corps on Guadalcanal, |
| 0:55.0 | which is being overwhelmed again and again by attacks, |
| 0:58.4 | mostly at night by the Japanese. |
| 1:01.0 | However, the Japanese mean to dislodge them, |
| 1:05.0 | mean to early on the Japanese were fighting a war of attrition, |
| 1:08.8 | leaving the Americans would wear out, |
| 1:11.0 | and then they would settle this war with negotiation. |
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