7/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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7/8: 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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| 0:41.6 | Nimitz at War, Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. A dramatic moment that is |
| 0:47.6 | replayed again and again and debated the US Naval Academy and everywhere you read the book about |
| 0:52.7 | the Pacific War. It holds these decision making at the Battle of Lady Golf but it doesn't stop there. |
| 0:59.0 | This is a war and in that war the Fifth Fleet is going to again take over and they're going to be |
| 1:05.2 | landings at Guam. They're going to be land, they're going to not Guam. They're going to be landings |
| 1:09.4 | at Iwo Jima and Okinawa coming up in the new year. We turn into the, we're going to turn into 45. |
| 1:16.4 | But before that there's something that isn't about the Japanese, it isn't about the Americans, |
| 1:20.9 | it's about nature. There's a typhoon in the middle of December 1944 and Bill Halsey again |
| 1:27.3 | who's given a chance again and again by Chester Nimitz to explain his excesses. Again makes a |
| 1:34.0 | decision that leads to the deaths of 800 assailors, the loss of three ships damaged to the fleet. |
| 1:41.8 | There's an invisible task force 58 and the review board faults Halsey afterwards and Nimitz travels |
| 1:52.5 | out to meet Halsey and to talk about this at the time. Again this gets complicated professor. |
| 1:58.8 | It becomes almost as if Nimitz doesn't have a way of disciplining Halsey. Did Halsey take advantage of that? |
| 2:05.2 | I don't know that Halsey took advantage of it. In a way Nimitz's attitude was let Halsey be Halsey. |
| 2:12.4 | I mean one of the things Nimitz liked about Halsey was his aggressive attitude. He could be counted |
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