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...Francisco, Navy Secretary James Forrestal held a planning session with Fleet Admirals King and Nimitz. Also present was shy, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, commander of the Fifth Fleet, which has conducted most big Pacific amphibious operations in the sweep westward from Tarawa...
...hilltop, was the modest wooden home of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Command-the nerve center of the naval force which now rules millions of square miles of ocean. In a bare little cottage which he shared with two other officers lived Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. In the cottage next door, adjoining bedrooms were labeled: "Spruance Room," "Halsey Room...
General Douglas MacArthur holds two commands: Allied commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific Area (CINCSOWES-PAC), and commander in chief of Army forces in the Pacific (CINCAFPAC). Admiral Chester Nimitz also holds two com mands: commander in chief of Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA), and commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC...
...days after Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the Tenth Army, was killed in battle, General MacArthur appointed "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell as his successor. Buckner had been fighting in an area (Okinawa) supposedly controlled by Admiral Nimitz. But word trickled through that Admiral Nimitz was as satisfied with the Stilwell appointment as was the U.S. generally...
...last-ditch Japanese defenders were split into pockets no more than a thousand yards square; Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced that organized resistance had ended. There was mopping-up still to be done: a few hundred of the enemy held out with machine guns, rifles and grenades. In the final pockets many of the enemy were killed; some committed hara-kiri with grenades or by jumping off the cliffs; some surrendered...