8/8: War end challenges: 8/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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8/8: War end challenges: 8/8: 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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| 0:00.0 | Elevate your summer nights |
| 0:02.6 | with all the indulgence of the new Magnum Double Star Chaser. |
| 0:07.2 | With cracking chocolate, popcorn flavor, |
| 0:11.4 | and rich caramel sauce for the night. |
| 0:14.2 | Pleasure is always on. |
| 0:16.8 | Magnum, true to pleasure. |
| 0:24.4 | This is CBS Island in the World. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm John Bachelorette Professor Craig Simon's. |
| 0:29.9 | Nymix at War, Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor, |
| 0:33.0 | to Tokyo Bay, Ernest King, Comanche, who is always present. |
| 0:37.7 | 16 times they meet. |
| 0:39.2 | King's messages to Nimitz and Nimitz's messages |
| 0:43.8 | to King, the professor, is quoted throughout the book. |
| 0:46.9 | Now they're debating in person and also by wire |
| 0:51.8 | about what is to be done about the Japanese homelands |
| 0:54.6 | who will not surrender. |
| 0:56.2 | The opinion I take at Professor from Nimitz |
| 0:59.1 | and King's point of view is, |
| 1:00.6 | Lockade will force them to the peace table. |
| 1:04.4 | I think that's true. |
| 1:05.4 | I think naval officers at almost every level |
| 1:08.5 | did not believe an invasion of the homelands |
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