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This appeal, being given the widest publicity,* came from the nation's fivestar admirals and generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Arnold, King, Nimitz and Leahy...
...Japs are going to get plenty," said Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in a press interview last week. "The tempo of the air war will be stepped up very, very much. They will be hit by carrier as well as land-based aircraft. We will give them everything...
...JapsTake? By the time the invasion is ready, Allied air power should have smashed Japan's industry and transport, and she should be thoroughly shriveled by combined air and naval blockade. She might not be able or willing to keep on fighting. When a reporter asked Admiral Nimitz last week whether he believed that invasion would,, in the end, be necessary, Nimitz replied: "I don't know. I don't know how much the Japs can take. They have seen what has happened in Europe, the wreckage of Germany. They know what is in store for them...
...least 25 ships, most of them light units, have been sunk; many more, including some major units, have been damaged. "We will take our time," said the Tenth's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., "and kill the Japanese gradually." Meanwhile the ship-plane battle went on. Admiral Nimitz's communique announced that a major warship had been damaged during an air attack...
Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz was found to have failed on one job: he did not instill his own qualities of cool calm-under-fire into his grey schnauzer pup, Mak-who heard Guam antiaircraft batteries open up in practice firing near the beach where the Admiral was swimming, took to the hills, was listed as missing...