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...lithe, handsome, four-star U.S. admiral who holds the job of CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacific) were to write a geography primer for children, he would probably start with these simple facts: three-fourths of the earth's surface is ocean. One-third of the earth's surface is the Pacific. Above this vast reach of blue water, above its coasts and islands, is the three-dimensional ocean...
...same time, they underestimated his capacity. Reports of large Japanese ship movements southward against Indo-China and Malaya convinced them that the Hawaiian Islands were safe for the time being. But they had many warnings to the contrary. Lay readers may be fascinated by such details as the CINCPAC intelligence officer's report of Dec. 1, in which it was noted that the call letters of four Japanese carriers had vanished from Japanese radio "traffic." The inference is that those carriers were at sea under radio silence, on their way to strike somewhere -as indeed they were...
...victories so vast. But Americans were inclined to be a little vague about the U.S. Navy's white-haired, pink-cheeked Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who had directed the Battle of the Pacific from a desk. He had never courted publicity. He had accumulated stiff titles like CINCPAC or CINCPOA instead of nicknames. And he had spent most of the war at Pearl Harbor and Guam...
...holds two commands: Allied commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific Area (CINCSOWES-PAC), and commander in chief of Army forces in the Pacific (CINCAFPAC). Admiral Chester Nimitz also holds two com mands: commander in chief of Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA), and commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC...
...mile or so before breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff and Deputy CinCPac. On a private pistol range set up beside the building, Nimitz could outshoot most visiting marksmen...