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...Navy moved up. Secretary James Forrestal said that a poll of servicemen would preponderantly favor universal service-"they believe as I do that the means to make war should be in the possession of the nations which hate war. . . ." From Admirals King, Nimitz and Halsey came urgent nods of the head...
...Japanese lines, to the southern beaches. The idea had been rejected because the reefs and beaches would have made it impossible to supply a large enough force. Such a landing "could have turned into another Anzio beachhead, or worse," declared Buckner. At his advance headquarters on Guam, Fleet Admiral Nimitz endorsed Buckner's decisions without qualification...
...quit. With the quickening of the war in the Pacific, the greatest need was for rapid ship repair. The Navy no longer made any bones about it: its ships were taking punishment from desperate Jap bombers and Kamikaze planes. One day last week Fleet Admiral Nimitz admitted damage to eleven of his light naval units in the space of 18 hours...
Growing Pearl. Pearl Harbor, which could not even be identified as the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet when those first new carriers returned from their strike at Marcus, is now freely advertised as the rear headquarters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' command. Pearl Harbor is still growing; the land area surrounding it is still being covered with new hundreds of acres of warehouses, shops and all the other impedimenta of a rear base...
Aboard a submarine at Guam, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (the Navy's No. 1 submariner) did honor last week to the feats of the undersea service-feats which must still remain unsung for reasons of security. Awarding medals to officers and enlisted men wearing the dolphin insignia, Nimitz announced their total accomplishment in the war against Japan: 1,119 ships sunk, aggregating 4,500,000 tons-more than half the ocean-going tonnage with which Japan started the war. In the last year, 2,000,000 tons went to the bottom...