Chester W. Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester William Nimitzwas a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet, for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth24 February 1885
CityFredericksburg, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?