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Nutcrackers I and II. In the Marianas Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Pacific Ocean Areas, is forging a close-in nutcracker to splinter the hard shell of Jap defenses. While his Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (only "a portion" of his Pacific force, as Nimitz thoughtfully pointed out) battered a way toward Japan from the south, another "portion" swept down the northerly Kuril Island chain last week and bombarded Matsuwa, 1,075 miles from Tokyo...
...Word of an Officer. Nimitz has said that he is going to the coast of China. Although he was not bound by his officer's word to do so, that was still a likely part of the ultimate plan to defeat Jap land power. The glittering strategic openings which appeared this week...
Patently, for an undertaking of such proportions, the Navy would have gathered a fleet bigger than any naval force yet assembled in the Pacific. The man in com mand was the man who, under Admiral Chester Nimitz, bosses the Fifth Fleet, the man who ran off the great amphibious attacks on the Gilberts and the Marshalls-the cold, calculating, mechanical man named Raymond Ames Spruance...
Model Admiral. The next year he was made a rear admiral. In 1941 he was sent to the Pacific. After the Battle of Midway, he became chief of staff to able Admiral Chester Nimitz, who said earnestly: "Nothing you can say about him would be praise enough." In an office overlooking Pearl Harbor he settled down to being Nimitz's right bower and helping to plan the Pacific...
...commentator spoke, a strong task force of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' Pacific Fleet was steaming west. Near week's end it struck: hundreds of the Navy's fighters and bombers, flying from a great force of carriers, dropped out of the skies over the Japs' vaunted unsinkable carriers in the Marianas: (from north to south) Saipan, Tinian, Guam, the eastern outposts of the Philippines...