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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in his role of CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas), now has top command in all areas north and east of Luzon. He and MacArthur have got along well thus far. But Navy men in general have no love for MacArthur; many of them believe he has slighted their service. In a special sense, the Pacific War is and has been the Navy's war, and the Navy knows that its prestige in that war is its great claim to public and Congressional support after the peace. The Navy would shrink from...
...brain center of the war against Japan moved closer to the objective last week. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz issued his 244th communique from "Advanced Headquarters, Pacific Ocean Areas," and correspondents were permitted to say that it was "several thousand miles west of Pearl Harbor." Nimitz had previously mentioned Saipan and Guam as possible sites for his vast command...
...nonflying Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' Pacific Fleet, the policy is for top nonflying combat admirals to have airmen chiefs of staff.* Except for their comparatively low rank (which is Admiral King's affair), naval flyers in the Pacific have hardly a complaint...
...naval air power had stretched its reach the full width of the Pacific. U.S. carrier-borne planes dominated the skies 6,000 miles west of the American mainland. For the first time, they roared up & down the China coast. If a landing in China was, as Fleet Admiral Nimitz said, "still an objective," then last week's forays by Vice Admiral John S. McCain's fast carrier task force showed that the aerial umbrella to cover it was already available...
...Pearl Harbor, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a fifth miniature star on his khaki shirt collar...