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...very thin margin" separates the balance of sea power in the Pacific. Last week the U.S. claimed that margin. "Slowly but surely we are tightening our grip," said Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet...
...killed 198 of the 200 Jap marines on the island (plus 150 more who went down on two Japanese ships which U.S. warships sank in the harbor). Colonel Carlson found the body of the Japanese commander, took his sword (which was later presented to Admiral Nimitz in Honolulu). The Marines lost fewer than 20 dead. Said Colonel Carlson: "We wanted to take prisoners, but we couldn't find...
First Blow. Fifty-eight-year-old Admiral Ghormley laid out the whole show. He did it with the approval and the help of his superior, Admiral Chester William Nimitz of Pearl Harbor, command hero of Midway, who had the disposal of the whole Pacific Fleet and was able to dispatch the force that mixed up the Jap in Kiska...
...together, service jealousies will have to be stamped out and the authority of commanders redefined. In the Canal Zone, the Navy will have to fit itself into the command of Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, just as in Hawaii the Army has worked in the harness of Admiral Chester Nimitz...
...victory was the result of superb teamwork among Army, Navy and Marine Corps flyers, under the centralized command of Admiral Chester William Nimitz...