4/8: War end challenges: 4/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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🗓️ 28 May 2023
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4/8: War end challenges: 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
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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| 0:43.0 | Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. |
| 0:45.0 | The decision of the flag officers. |
| 0:48.0 | Gormley has struggled to provide for the US Marine Corps on Guadalcanal, |
| 0:55.0 | which is being overwhelmed again and again by attacks, |
| 0:58.0 | mostly at night by the Japanese. |
| 1:01.0 | However, the Japanese mean to dislodge them, |
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