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...Marines who claim that they exhumed the flyers' bodies in Saipan in 1944, and says that the remains were either secretly reinterred or are today in the possession of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. And he quotes no less a personage than Admiral Chester A. Nimitz, who told Goerner in March 1965: "I want to tell you Earhart and her navigator did go down in the Marshalls and were picked up by the Japanese." Alas, Nimitz told him no more than that; he died last February...
...Business School also confirmed his distaste for what he calls "the comforts of repetitiousness." The U.S. Navy did the rest. After serving on a destroyer, Dietz was assigned to Admiral Nimitz's public relations staff on Guam. It was Dietz' job to greet officials visitors, such as Congressional delegations, and take them on tours of the island. When a delegation lost all its baggage, as one actually managed to do, Dietz was supposed to commiserate with the Congressman on their inability to dress for dinner with the Admiral...
...every war they have fought, Americans have also shown great patience, which of course is a form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...
...group of naval (including Marine) cryptanalysts and Japanese linguists working under Commander J. J. Rochefort at Pearl Harbor were successful in partially breaking and translating a Japanese naval code. This was a major element (but by no means the only one) affecting the successful disposition of Nimitz' forces for the Battle of Midway...
...probably the only living witness to what happened when Nimitz ran the destroyer Decatur aground in 1908. The ship was conducting torpedo practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When...