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Reports on a Battle. At the moment when these words of praise were being weighed in the map-plastered office of CINCPAC in Pearl Harbor, other words were being weighed even more carefully in an office 2,000 miles to the southwest...
Victories in the Coral Sea and off Midway brought Admiral Chester W. Nimitz the Distinguished Service Medal last week for "exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet." The white-haired CINCPAC received his decoration aboard a battleship in a West Coast port, but he almost came to grief during his visit to the U.S. mainland. In an accident while landing at a coast airport, the co-pilot of his plane was killed, two passengers injured slightly. The Admiral was little the worse for wear...
...Cincpac's statement was more likely a smoke screen to cover the coming attack. The raid may have been the first operation in the series of assaults which will be the sine qua non of U.S. victory in the Pacific: reduction, base by prickly base, of the fortified Japanese islands which interdict the U.S. supply lines to the Far East. That process will not begin with any conviction until the Allies enjoy clear naval supremacy in the Pacific. But raids like last week's may prove very useful as preliminary softeners. If Japanese aircraft and submarine bases...