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PRESIDENTS WEKEND: FDR; HARRY TRUMAN: 4/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

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🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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PRESIDENTS WEKEND: FDR; HARRY TRUMAN: 4/8: 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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Why are you listening to this podcast?

0:02.0

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0:04.0

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0:09.0

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0:16.2

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0:23.0

And she knows best, most of the time.

0:27.0

Adventure awaits with Petty Faloo! This is Seabes I on the world with Craig Simons, Professor Craig Simons, U.S. Naval Academy,

0:40.0

Emeritus Professor of History.

0:42.0

The book is Nimitz at War, Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay,

0:46.1

the decision of the flag officers.

0:48.3

Gormley has struggled to provide for the U.S. Marine Corps on Guadalajanal, which is being overwhelmed again and again by attacks

0:58.5

mostly at night by the Japanese.

1:02.0

However, the Japanese, and the Japanese mean to dislodge them, mean to, early on, the Japanese

1:07.0

were fighting a war of attrition, believing the Americans would wear out and then they would

1:11.9

settle this war with negotiation, some fantastic version.

1:16.3

However, there's no patience at By Ernest King, so Nimitz makes a command decision to replace

1:21.6

Gormley with Halsey. Why, Professor?

1:25.0

Well, I think that Nimitz believed he had given Gormley every chance. He visited

1:31.1

Gormley in Nomea.

1:33.0

Nymets had, in fact, personally, flown to Guadalcanal, met with Vandigrip, walked the lines,

1:39.2

awarded Vandigrip with a medal in this bunker decided that Guadalcanal could be held.

1:47.0

Now remember, Guadalcanal is a large island.

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