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More important, to many Navymen's thinking (including CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz), is the type of ships the subs specialize in sinking: Japan's hard-pressed tankers. It may have been U.S. submarines, not U.S. battleships or carriers, that forced the Japs to pull a big segment of their fleet out of Truk-because a shortage of tankers may have prevented adequate deliveries...
Says Chester Nimitz: "They will probably become more of a menace to us as the lines shorten. We are not finished with the Japanese submarine, by any means...
...Matthias Islands are flat, well suited for fighter and bomber strips. They lie only 625 miles from Truk. Admiral Nimitz' forces at Eniwetok are 775 miles from Truk. Now another junction appeared in the offing...
Back to his post in Pearl Harbor went Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the mightiest fleet and amphibious force in world history. For more than a week he had been in Washington, planning, conferring. Before he left, Navymen whispered, some of the U.S.'s weightiest war decisions were made. The war against Japan depended no longer on European developments...
...this was but the tuning-up for the great overture about to begin. Chester W. Nimitz sat down in his headquarters, with his score before...