6/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
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6/8: 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.
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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| 0:37.0 | Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. |
| 0:40.0 | By Professor Craig Simon's US Naval Academy Emeritus. |
| 0:44.0 | We're concentrating on the relationships of the commanders, |
| 0:47.0 | the flag officers, the generals of the Marine Corps, the generals of the Army. |
| 0:52.0 | We now come to Spruance Commanding the Fleet. |
| 0:55.0 | During the landings on the Marianas. |
| 0:58.0 | And there is an opportunity to take on the Japanese fleet. |
| 1:02.0 | And to go up against what looked at at this point, |
| 1:06.0 | a Japanese attempt to launch all of its aircraft and sink American carriers. |
| 1:11.0 | There were a great number of carriers that are coming on all the time now. |
| 1:14.0 | The arsenal of democracy is delivering big carriers after big carriers. |
| 1:18.0 | And Task Force 58 then takes on the Japanese attack |
| 1:23.0 | and what is known as the Battle of Philippine Sea, |
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