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...said that Radford wears "three hats," which means that he has three commands. As CINCPAC, he commands the Pacific Fleet. As CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area), he is theater commander of an area which reaches from the North to the South Pole, from the continental shores of the Americas to the Bay of Bengal. Radford is also High Commissioner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which means that he must look after the welfare of inhabitants of islands put in U.S. trust by the United Nations. This is the least important of the admiral...
...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...
General Douglas MacArthur 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...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in his role of CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas), now has top command in all areas north and east of Luzon. He and MacArthur have got along well thus far. But Navy men in general have no love for MacArthur; many of them believe he has slighted their service. In a special sense, the Pacific War is and has been the Navy's war, and the Navy knows that its prestige in that war is its great claim to public and Congressional support after the peace. The Navy would shrink from...
...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...
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