WHAT THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY MEANT ONCE UPON A TIME: 6/8: 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
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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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| 0:39.1 | Tokyo Bay by Professor Craig Simons, U.S US Naval Academy Emeritus. |
| 0:44.0 | We're concentrating on the relationships of the commanders, the flag officers, the generals of the Marine Corps, the generals of the Army. |
| 0:52.0 | We now come to Spruence commanding the fleet during the |
| 0:56.3 | landings on the Marianas. |
| 0:59.1 | And there is an opportunity to take on the Japanese fleet and to go up against what looked at this point a |
| 1:07.1 | Japanese attempt to launch all of its aircraft and sink American carriers. There |
| 1:12.1 | were a great number of carriers. |
| 1:13.5 | They're coming on all the time now. |
| 1:14.9 | The arsenal of democracy is delivering big carriers after big carriers. |
| 1:19.0 | And Task Force 58 then takes on the Japanese attack in what is known as the Battle of |
| 1:25.4 | Philippine Sea but is otherwise known as the Turkey Shoot. What do we learn |
| 1:28.9 | about this moment and spruence his decision-making professor. |
| 1:34.0 | Well keep in mind that the United States Navy in peace time always plans for |
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