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...back at all. It shouldn't tax his muddled brain too much to recall that a few million Americans, many of German descent and including such notables as Eisenhower and Spaatz, saved the British Isles from invasion, and to realize that many others of German descent-Nimitz, Wedemeyer, Mitscher, Eichelberger and Krueger, to name a few-are helping to save the Empire...
...real scramble for power will come in the Navy. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of the Pacific Fleet, is still four years short of retirement age, wants the COMINCH job. The Fifth Fleet's quiet, hard-working Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, 59, is also a leading candidate. Navy "radicals" (i.e., proponents of a break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean...
...that the forces under his command had made the greatest direct contribution to the defeat of Japan. That distinction belonged rather to men of all services who had fought under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and to the strategic bombers of the Twentieth (B29) Air Force. But the occupation command fell naturally to the top field commander in the theater-providing he had the qualifications...
Premier Suzuki's Cabinet took control of the People's Volunteer Corps from the Army and Navy. War Minister Anami ordered his Kwantung troops to fight to the death (Moscow said they were surrendering in droves). A Jap torpedo hit a U.S. warship off Okinawa, and Admiral Nimitz ordered the hovering Third Fleet, silent for two days, back into action (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
November: Nimitz' march across the Central Pacific began with the invasion of Tarawa and Makin...