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...week before the report, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, retired, let out an anticipatory roar: "The Navy of the future will be capable of launching missiles from surface vessels and submarines and of delivering atomic bombs from carrier-based planes...
...strategy recognized that in the long run defense of the Mediterranean would hinge largely on success of the European Recovery Program. However, while Congress debated ERP, Russian satellites might make military moves which would require military answers. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said: "In the Mediterranean we would like to keep our ships as near war standards as possible...
...replace aging Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations, President Truman last week picked Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 56, commander of the Pacific Fleet. A onetime chief of naval personnel, Denfeld was a proved administrator, well-liked on Capitol Hill, but no airman. It was a clear-cut victory for the Navy's tightly knit battleship clique...
...shooting, Halsey won most of his arguments. But many an expert will continue to differ with certain Halsey tactics defended in his Story. Example: the famous Battle for Leyte Gulf in October 1944, where some critics claim that the Japanese decoyed Halsey out of position. On that occasion Admiral Nimitz bluntly radioed to ask where Halsey's battleships were. Says Halsey: "I was as stunned as if I had been struck in the face. The paper rattled in my hands. I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something that I am ashamed to remember...
Cheers for General Ike. By contrast, there were few fireworks in the convention hall. Guest speakers included New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Mayor William O'Dwyer, Defense Secretary James Forrestal, General Carl Spaatz, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, but almost every man spoke on the same subject-universal military training. Though there were 12,000 people in Madison Square Garden for the opening moments of the convention, the crowds dwindled after that...