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BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC (See Cover) He could hardly have been charged with the defeat of the Japanese fleet in the Coral Sea in May 1942, nor with the decisive beating the fleet took from a desperate band of American last-ditchers at Midway, a month later. It was not mainly his fault that the Japanese Navy had been bloodily ejected from the Solomons, or that it was progressively driven back on its inner defenses by the overwhelming force of U.S. arms in the Pacific...
Result, as even the Jap civilian could guess: the worst defeat since Midway...
...Attack at Once." At the historic Battle of Midway, where Admiral Spruance trod the bridge in his first great battle command, the Spruance toughness became a Navy legend...
Model Admiral. The next year he was made a rear admiral. In 1941 he was sent to the Pacific. After the Battle of Midway, he became chief of staff to able Admiral Chester Nimitz, who said earnestly: "Nothing you can say about him would be praise enough." In an office overlooking Pearl Harbor he settled down to being Nimitz's right bower and helping to plan the Pacific...
...Midway between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic the Germans seemed firmer. Mines, demolitions, difficult country, stubborn rear guards impeded pursuit of the long, weary German columns winding up the rutted mountain roads. But General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army slogged steadily at their heels, captured Avezzano, virtually cleared the lateral highway from Rome to the Adriatic...