[rlmorel]

I read your first line of that post, and thought I would offer up Chester Nimitz as a rebuttal, but kept in mind he was locked in a death grip with the Japanese Navy when they were still on par or even superior.

So he wouldn’t have applied.

[yarddog]

The American Navy fought with dogged determination through the worst days of the war and kept that determination through the war while learning and finally outsmarting the Japanese even tho they did eventually have overwhelming superiority.