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From Honolulu, Admiral Chester Nimitz could attack with carrier forces and amphibious troops across the central Pacific, seizing bases from which the Navy could get athwart Japan's communications with her southern holdings. The other Navy objective: to seek out the Jap and destroy him. Supplementary to Nimitz's drive, but more as a diversion than a major operation, planes could attack Jap outposts from the Aleutians...
...Navy's report on its stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded...
...Next day I got a note of thanks and congratulations from Admiral Nimitz. 'It gives me the same sensation of getting in step with world events that your Air Express Edition gave me when I was stationed in Latin America,' a Brigadier General wrote. "My congratulations to you, your printers and your publisher on a very significant accomplishment.' "Copies landed on the newsstands at 9 a.m., were completely sold out by noon. Today one of the Honolulu papers carries a classified advertisement offering a $10 reward for a single copy of this first edition...
...office of Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., aboard his flagship at headquarters in the South Pacific, hangs a new, unofficial motto for the U.S. Navy, sent to him by Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz:* "The Lord gave us two ends to use, one to think with and one to sit with. The war depends on which we choose -heads we win, tails we lose...
...abbreviation for General Douglas MacArthur, Allied Commander in Chief in the Southwest Pacific; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet; and Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander in the South Pacific...