Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) emancipation JIM MCGRATH

JIM MCGRATH

But the war did not end on April 9

only to see it all become damaged on July 2 during a Confederate assault on Union skirmishers and then again the next day

and they entertain us

The CSS Virginia was a paradigm of Confederate strategy and execution—the brainchild of innovative

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) emancipation JIM MCGRATHby Craig L. Symonds Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U. S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the