Word: ghormley
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...Midway it may have been, in one sense, but it was less than midway in point of time or distance. The real march to Tokyo could not begin from Midway: it had to start from Guadalcanal, and disaster nearly overtook it. Nimitz hated to relieve Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who had burned himself out in the South Pacific, allowing himself neither exercise nor relaxation, trying to run an offensive on a shoestring (and four months ahead of schedule). But at last Nimitz sent Halsey south to take over...
...Ghormley went to Pearl Harbor, as commandant of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier. There Nimitz gave him, and all his other subordinates, a daily object lesson in how to keep fit. By then Nimitz had moved his headquarters to a steel & concrete building, supposedly bombproof, overlooking the yard. Each morning he walked a 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...
Among others who joined in the denunciation of too much rest were famed Orthopedist Ralph K. Ghormley of the Mayo Clinic ("the day an arthritic patient gives up and goes to bed is the day he becomes a total cripple") and Psychiatrist Karl A. Menninger of the Menninger Clinic ("an automobile whose engine has become overheated as the result of being driven with the brakes set cannot be cured by resting...
...lost a carrier to submarine attack: in Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's command in the South Pacific the Wasp was nailed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomons. To submarines or gunfire the Royal Navy has lost no less than four (Courageous, Glorious, Ark Royal, Eagle). Naming none of these names, Flyer Collett wrote...
Again, Unity of Command. Blame for the costly Solomons campaign, which he said was "not well organized and was not followed up at all," Congressman Maas fixed on the whipping boy called lack-of-unity-of-command. His criticism of the separation of the Ghormley (now Halsey) and MacArthur commands came just twelve days after General Marshall said that unity of command had been achieved. But Congressman Maas and General Marshall meant two different things...