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From Honolulu came a rare picture of habitually grave, businesslike CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz with his hands full of unaccustomed duty at the official opening of a Navy recreation center...
...Area commanders often have complete freedom of decision. Example: Admiral Nimitz' decision to concentrate his forces for the Battle of Midway, when the Japs might have struck in force elsewhere. ("We knew what Nimitz was doing. He did the right thing, and we let him alone...
Admiral Chester William Nimitz measured his words. With his own hand the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet wrote last week...
...drove his ship, whose biggest guns were 8-in., to within 2,000 yards of a Jap battleship, which carried 14-in. guns. He led his force right between two Japanese groups, so that when he pulled out the Japs fired on each other. ("I hope," said Admiral Nimitz, telling about this later, "that the Jap gunnery was up to the usual excellent standard which they have always shown against...
...Japs suffered the following sinkings: one battleship, another battleship or a very large cruiser, eight cruisers, six destroyers, eight troop transports, four cargo ships. They also lost a huge number of ground troops who had been taking their last ferry trip-between 20,000 and 40,000, Admiral Nimitz estimated...