This is CBSI in the world with Craig Simon's professor Craig Simon's US Naval Academy

Emeritus Professor of History.

The book is Nimitz at War Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, the decision

of the flag officers.

Gormley has struggled to provide for the US Marine Corps on Guadalaj Canal, which is being

overwhelmed again and again by attacks, mostly at night by the Japanese.

However, the Japanese mean to dislodge them, mean to early on, the Japanese were fighting

a war of attrition, leaving the Americans would wear out, and then they would settle this

war with negotiation.

Some fantastic version.

However, there's no patience at Bionist King, so Nimitz makes a command decision to replace

Gormley with Halsey.

Well I think that Nimitz believed he had given Gormley every chance.

He'd visited Gormley in Numea, Nimitz had, in fact personally, flown to Guadalaj Canal,

met with Vandergrip, walked the lines, awarded Vandergrip for the medal in this bunker,

decided that Guadalaj Canal could be held.

Now remember, Guadalaj Canal is a large island.

The Marines are actually holding a small little footprint around the air strip, and the

Japanese have the rest of the island, and the Japanese are hammering at those lines.

Almost daily, and the Marines are holding out.

They never give way.

They hang onto that airfield, but at any given moment it looks like the Japanese who are

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