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...last great tragedy of World War II -the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July, with the loss of 880 lives-was unveiled in full detail last week. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz called in newsmen, said: "We have no desire or intention to deny any of our mistakes." Then he confessed four grievous ones...
...Blame. The Navy top command had disagreed on disciplinary action. Nimitz said he had wanted to give Captain Charles B. McVay III, skipper of the Indianapolis, nothing worse than a letter of reprimand, "but the Department in Washington saw fit to disregard my recommendation." A compromise had at last been reached...
...Admiral Nimitz did, in spite of being court-martialed and reprimanded for running a destroyer aground in the Philippines almost 40 years...
...cost of Tarawa inevitable? Was it necessary to conquer Iwo?), he is determinedly fair. As a historian, his concern is more with events themselves than with the exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held Bougainville...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto actually never boasted that he would dictate peace in the White House-quite the contrary, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported; the sword-rattling Japanese Government had simply twisted Yamamoto's remarks. Said Nimitz: newly discovered Japanese documents prove that the Jap admiral was trying to warn his people that in any war on the U.S. "to make victory certain we will have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House...