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Island by Island. Whatever the objective of the next major blow in the Pacific, one thing is certain: the Navy has no present hope of drawing the Jap Fleet into conclusive combat, of destroying it and thus ending the Pacific war. In the central Pacific, Admiral Chester Nimitz has settled down to island-hopping...
Battlewise Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, knew that in taking the Gilbert Islands the U.S. had taken a short step toward Tokyo. The Admiral was proud of that step, but he could see beyond the islands. At his first press conference in nearly a year, he told Honolulu correspondents: "My opinion is that Japan will be defeated from China. . . . China with her reservoir of personnel and the possibility of airfields in easy striking distance of Japan is one of the steps along the road...
...weeks before the Gilberts invasion CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz issued a directive ordering fleet, force and unit commanders to extend fullest cooperation to correspondents everywhere. His brusque public-relations officer, Commander Waldo Drake (onetime Los Angeles Timesman), picked the correspondents to be taken along, decided which should go in planes, on carriers, in landing parties...
...King, who was eligible for retirement last year but was retained in his post by the President. Last week he celebrated his 65th birthday. The only other men in the Navy who wear an admiral's four stars on active line duty: > White-haired, canny Chester W. Nimitz, 58, boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold R. Stark, 63, commander of U.S. Naval forces in European waters; spare, taciturn Royal...
Ingersoll, 60, Nimitz' opposite number in the Atlantic...