5/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 5/8: 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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5/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 5/8: 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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| 0:41.3 | Craig Simon's new book is Nimitz at War Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. |
| 0:47.6 | He is a meridus professor of history from the US Naval Academy. And we're speaking |
| 0:52.4 | of Chester Nimitz at War in the Pacific. It is now the point where the Central Pacific |
| 1:00.6 | campaign, starting in the Gilbert Islands, driving towards the Japanese Islands, is underway |
| 1:07.8 | with the landing at Tarawa, a small island, a series of a tolls. And this is where the |
| 1:14.3 | Marines have to practice their amphibious landing that will get better and stronger |
| 1:19.7 | throughout the war. In fact, amphibious landings in general are now being invented by the |
| 1:24.5 | Marines and the Army. And they require specialized ships that don't exist at this point. You |
| 1:30.6 | all think of the landing craft from D-Day, the drop of the front and the men piling out. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, that didn't exist as they landed at Tarawa. This is November of 1943. The professor's |
| 1:42.7 | book concentrates on relationships, however. So we begin with Chester Nimitz's relationship |
| 1:48.3 | with the US Marine Corps. He worked very well through Halsey with Vendegrift at Guarral |
| 1:53.2 | Canal. But now we introduce a man named Hollen Smith. What is that relationship professor? |
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