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Victories in the Coral Sea and off Midway brought Admiral Chester W. Nimitz the Distinguished Service Medal last week for "exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet." The white-haired CINCPAC received his decoration aboard a battleship in a West Coast port, but he almost came to grief during his visit to the U.S. mainland. In an accident while landing at a coast airport, the co-pilot of his plane was killed, two passengers injured slightly. The Admiral was little the worse for wear...
They have achieved a formal unity of command in specific theaters-MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific, General Andrews in the Panama Canal area, etc. Yet in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Army bombed the Jap Fleet for three days without knowing, till Army pilots found the Navy in action, that the Navy was coming in too. Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone (TIME, June 1). The minds of generals and admirals, although much improved by six months' education in real...
CONGRATULATIONS ON MAY 18 COVER MAGNIFICENT PORTRAIT OF COMMANDER NIMITZ...
Pearl Harbor is "a bloody monument to divided responsibility," says Colonel Knerr. But even now it is under a "threeway split command between Admiral Nimitz, the Navy district commander, and the Army airman Lieut. General Delos Emmons...
Patiently, when the excitement abated, Admiral Chester William Nimitz pulled all the threads together into the big pattern that spelled victory. That particular task was over; now for the next one. He busied himself with the endless detail of new plans for operations over his vast domain, from Alaska to the continental shelf of Australia. There would be more battles, other carefully calculated sallies against the Jap. Some would be victories. Some might be defeats. Chester William Nimitz would send out the orders-and wait...