Word: cincpac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, wizened, air-wise, U.S. Navy carrier task-force commander in the Pacific, got a Navy bronze star at his advance base in the Marshalls from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Said Nimitz: "Ninety-one years ago a naval officer opened up the ports of Japan, and now another officer is doing his damndest to close them...
Lieut. Commander Chester W. Nimitz Jr., only son of CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz, was awarded the Navy's Gold Star for "conspicuous heroism" in "actions resulting in sinking enemy shipping and in damaging other vessels...
...General MacArthur has direct strategic command of all Allied forces operating within the Southwest Pacific area. If Admiral Halsey wants to operate there, MacArthur is his strategic boss. Elsewhere, Admiral Halsey is under the sole command of Admiral Nimitz, CINCPAC and CINCPOA...
More important, to many Navymen's thinking (including CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz), is the type of ships the subs specialize in sinking: Japan's hard-pressed tankers. It may have been U.S. submarines, not U.S. battleships or carriers, that forced the Japs to pull a big segment of their fleet out of Truk-because a shortage of tankers may have prevented adequate deliveries...
...weeks before the Gilberts invasion CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz issued a directive ordering fleet, force and unit commanders to extend fullest cooperation to correspondents everywhere. His brusque public-relations officer, Commander Waldo Drake (onetime Los Angeles Timesman), picked the correspondents to be taken along, decided which should go in planes, on carriers, in landing parties...