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Military Strategy. On the second day, in the spacious, book-lined living room of the Holmes house, there was a brief military conference (90 minutes) with General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral William F. Halsey of the Third Fleet and Lieut. General Robert C. (Nellie) Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy...
...enemy retired to the northeastern peninsula, giving up the shattered capital of Agana with so little struggle that its recapture was not even mentioned in Admiral Nimitz' communiques...
...Pearl Harbor office of Admiral Nimitz hangs a great wall map of the Pacific Ocean. Last week a new name was pasted on the map: the Philippine Sea. That new name meant that a new management had moved into the area-1,500,000 square miles, bounded by the southern islands of Japan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines, Carolines, Marianas and Bonins...
What would be the next stop on the road to Tokyo? Planning in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz had a score of possibilities. Planning in Tokyo, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada had no possibilities at all. He had to wait for the blow, counter it if he could. Up to now his countering average was zero. His only asset was the fanatical willingness of garrison troops to die; their numbers and resources would increase as U.S. forces drove closer to his homeland. Saipan was but a sample of the Japs' determination to carry with them to death as many Americans...
...created to bring together all the Marine divisions for the final assaults against Japan. Last week Admiral Nimitz announced that tough, kindly Lieut. General Holland M. Smith had been given command of Fleet Marine Forces of the Pacific...