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Which Way to China? Presumably, the most important goal for Admiral Spruance and his strategic boss, Chester Nimitz, next along their route across the Central Pacific is the Philippines-a long 2,700 miles west of Eniwetok. Admiral Nimitz confirmed this impression last fortnight when he said: "I believe the Japs can be defeated only from bases in China." That can hardly be done until the Philippines are regained...
...Admiral Nimitz' simple statement of aim drew agreement from two other strategists who have an eye on China and the Philippines. Dour, realistic Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell promised to support Nimitz by "an aggressive Allied land and air offensive projected from the interior." But Infantryman Stilwell barbed his statement with caution that "vital China-based air operations cannot wait for penetration of the blockade by land...
...improving amphibious operations the U.S. could thank the top Pacific admirals: Nimitz, Spruance, Turner and Towers. But it was also deeply in the debt of an explosive, spectacled, mustached major general of the Marine Corps; Holland McTyeire Smith...
...Navy shipped him out to Pearl Harbor as Commander of Air in the Pacific, a high-sounding title for a smothered, largely administrative assignment. Now Aviator Towers, well out of the doghouse, towers at the right hand of the Pacific's canny commander-in-chief, Admiral Chester Nimitz...
...Commanders. Directing this spreading, rising effort was Admiral Chester William Nimitz at Pearl Harbor. Key men in Nimitz' command are men like him - hardheaded and cool...