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Last week the Navy and the Army moved up to Japan's outer doorstep in the Central Pacific (see map). Simultaneously, a new Central Pacific Command was created; at its head Pacific Commander in Chief Admiral Chester W. Nimitz put a 57-year-old Hoosier, Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, veteran of the Battle of Midway...
Finally the Navy was ready. Conservative Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, blazed a challenge: "Henceforth we propose to give the Jap no rest anywhere." Last week's move signaled the opening of operations...
...subs with his commanders. He has served in submarines for most of his career. His first command was one of the first submarines to go beyond the experimental stage the A2, in 1914. His immediate superior is a submarine man whose son is in the service, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet...
...time might support an invasion blow at Truk's eastern flank-at the Marshalls and Gilberts, for instance. He must have realized that last week's Solomons action might be partly a diversion. He probably had means of hearing excerpts from a speech Admiral Nimitz made in Honolulu last week: "Before we can bring our fast-growing air and naval superiority to bear on the Japanese homeland, we must secure adequate bases close enough to that homeland. This will be done...
...sure that a heavier blow will not fall on another sector. He has to hold back until he is sure. He has been holding back quite a bit lately. But some day soon he will have to strike. If he does not, the rest of what Admiral Nimitz said will come explosively true...