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...details had been worked out in scores of conferences between Major General Lauris Norstad, one of the Army's keenest strategists, and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, an airborne sailor who has long been Fleet Admiral Nimitz' brain trust. Sitting in, when higher echelons were called for, were Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal and the Army's W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary...
...radio talks in Japanese. Fourteen of these talks were beamed to Tokyo between May and August. They reached influential Japanese up to and including the Emperor, says their author, and were more instrumental than the atomic bomb itself in bringing Japan "emotionally and spiritually" to its knees. Yet Admiral Nimitz, among others, had been "persistently advised" against such psychological warfare...
...three year tour of duty in the Pacific, Captain Bonney assumed command of the local unit last July. He served as commanding officer of a submarine squadron for 18 months, and as deputy commander of Service Squadron 10, and he had a hand in directing the outfit known as "Nimitz' secret weapon...
...shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
...August, 1945 Bonney was appointed Deputy Commander of Service Squadron 10, the Naval logistics unit for all territory west of Hawaii, which later became known as Admiral Nimitz's "secret weapon." He held this post until his transfer to the University NROTC program was announced...