Admiral Nimitz and the Pacific War with Craig L. Symonds | John Batchelor

Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. Craig Symonds's "Nimitz at War" captures Nimitz's composure, discipline, homespun wisdom, and most of all his uncanny sense of when to assert authority and when to pull back. As this absorbing, dynamic, and authoritative portrait reveals, it required qualities of leadership exhibited by few other commanders in history, qualities that are enduringly and even poignantly relevant to our own moment. John Batchelor is the host of CBS Eye on the World, a hard news-analysis radio program featuring interviews with authors and reporters on a range of topics, from current events and world history to the natural sciences. 00:00 Nimitz at War 00:49 Pearl Harbor 03:03 Ernest J. King (COMINCH) 04:32 Husband E. Kimmel 05:27 Nimitz's personality 07:20 Brown shoes vs black shoes 08:23 Calculated risk 10:18 Doolittle Raid 11:53 Decrypting radio traffic 13:10 Battle of the Coral Sea 14:39 Raymond A. Spruance 15:59 Marc Mitscher 18:15 Guadalcanal 21:12 The Walkers 22:57 Nimitz in Honolulu 24:47 Robert L. Ghormley 26:55 Frank Jack Fletcher 28:43 Replacing Ghormley 30:57 William Halsey Jr. 33:57 Douglas MacArthur 36:02 South or Central Pacific? 38:31 Landing at Tarawa 41:52 John Henry Towers 44:42 Mitscher's second chance 45:50 Battle of Kwajalein 47:57 Battle of the Philippine Sea 51:10 Battle of Leyte Gulf 53:53 Halsey's tantrum 56:55 December 1944 Typhoon 01:00:43 Nimitz in Guam 01:03:29 Nimitz and FDR in DC 01:04:46 Okinawa 01:07:23 A second typhoon 01:09:22 Blockade vs invasion 01:12:04 A special weapon 01:13:23 V-J Day, a promotion for Nimitz 01:15:10 Spruants and the Naval War College 01:16:36 "Sea Power: A Naval History" and E.B. Potter "Nimitz at War" by Craig L. Symonds on Amazon: https://a.co/d/cCdq3mQ Audioboom: https://audioboom.com/channel/johnbat... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cmrj90...