WHAT THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY MEANT ONCE UPON A TIME: 2/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
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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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| 0:43.0 | new book is Nimitz at War, command leadership |
| 0:46.0 | from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. |
| 0:48.0 | This is a book that can be used by current officers in the US Navy and retired and future |
| 0:55.0 | to understand the relationships between the men who were given a task without adequate |
| 1:01.0 | resources to restart the United States Navy in the Pacific after the |
| 1:06.0 | Pearl Harbor attack. Immediately Ernest King, the Cominch, says attack, attack, |
| 1:11.1 | attack. He wants to get out there and punch. Nimitz doesn't have much of a fleet |
| 1:16.4 | now. The battleships who had been regarded as the strength of all navies, the gun club, |
| 1:22.4 | are either a four of the numbers very badly damaged or sunk, |
| 1:27.0 | including the Arizona, four are badly damaged. |
| 1:29.5 | So he has aircraft carriers. |
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