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...Admiral Nimitz announced the results: one cargo ship sunk, others set afire or damaged; a total of 135 Jap planes destroyed against a loss of six U.S. planes...
...bill to come would make Admirals Chester W. Nimitz and William F. Halsey Admirals of the Fleet (equals British Admiral of the Fleet...
...Australia Douglas MacArthur, whose forces are some 350 miles nearer Manila than Nimitz' carriers, warned that sea blockade and bombardment alone could not defeat Japan. Said he: "The strongest military element of Japan is the army, which must be defeated before our success is assured. This can only be done by the use of large ground forces. . . . [Japan's] outlying islands of the Pacific represent an outpost position, important, it is true, but no longer decisive...
General or Admiral? The Joint Chiefs of Staff, who make the final decisions, probably had not decided how to get to the Philippines. But the final decision was not yet pressing: there was far to go. > Nimitz and his task forces could seize or by-pass more islands on their westward march. MacArthur could pound away at Jap pockets of resistance while his land troops went on retaking New Guinea...
Perhaps events might finally decide. With the power and flexibility the U.S. now has in the Pacific, either Nimitz or MacArthur could move to meet them...