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podcast. There's no safe like simply safe terms and conditions apply. I'm John Batcher. The book is Nimitz at War, command leadership from Pearl Harbor to

Tokyo Bay by Professor Craig Simons, U.S. Naval Academy Emeritus.

We're concentrating on the relationships of the commanders, the flag officers,

the generals of the Marine Corps, the generals of the Army. we now come to Spruance commanding the fleet during

the landings on the Marianas, and there is an opportunity to take on the Japanese fleet and to go up against what looked at this point a

Japanese attempt to launch all of its aircraft and sink American carriers.

There were a great number of carriers. They're coming on all the time now.

The Arsenal Democracy is delivering big carriers after big carriers.

And Task Force 58 then takes on the Japanese attack in what is known as the Battle of Philippine Sea but

is otherwise known as the Turkey Shoot.

What do we learn about this moment and spruence his decision-making professor.

Well, keep in mind that the United States Navy in peace time always plans for

contingencies. What might happen? How can we prepare for for that it's happening today as we speak and it certainly

happened throughout the 1930s and the planning that most Navy officers assumed would would come forth is that at some point in a possible future

war with Japan there would be a major naval battle somewhere in the Western

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