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is CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Craig Simons, Meredith's professor of history from the US Naval Academy.

Nimitz at war, command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, the relationships of the

flag officers and the generals as they prosecute the Pacific War which it was secondary

in the minds of the joint chiefs of staff, the

British and American working together. Europe first, Europe first. Ernest King,

however, had other ideas and Ernest King has sent Chester Nimitz to Pearl Harbor to

command this rotating story of ships and men and aircraft. Now King says Coral Sea and Midway are such a success. We need to go on the

offense of somewhere. They do not have adequate what is called sea lift. They do not

have adequate what is called

forces, divisions.

However, they're going to get out there even though they're

short, what Nimitz says repeatedly in the professor's book, do the best we can with what we've got.

So we go to Tulagi, which we know is Guadalcanal, the Marines land, and the fleet that accompanies

them, the ships that accompany them, cannot stay all the time.

They have other duties and they don't want to be tied to ashore to make themselves vulnerable.

These are very risky moments again, Professor What was Nimitz's thinking of Guadalcanal?

Did he want to wait or did it was he okay with the idea of going now even though we have inadequate resources.

Nivitz did indeed plan on taking the offensive as soon after the Battle of Midway

as possible.

What he had in mind was an attack on the Santa Cruz Islands, which are a little bit to the southeast of Guadalcanal and Tulagi.

Tulagi is a tiny little island but it's where the Japanese headquarters were.

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