Posted on 06/05/2020 3:43:06 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Our older Admirls and ship captains at first were hesitant. Nimitz weeded things out. The officers that rose in the ranks with a fire in their bellies soon started making a difference. The submarine force was slow at first but caught fire. The tincans at Leyete Gulf we’re excecptional as were the pilots and carrier captains. A war tends to weed out the weak. Eisenhower had a good instinct for fighters and he loved his noncoms, he did great in Europe. The Japanese didn’t think Americans could fight. They got handed some tough lessons. It’s been that way from the 1700’s to now. There’s a lotta fight in this US dog.
It’s hard to believe-78 years. I has two Uncles who served in WW II in the Pacific, both of them are gone now. Miss you Uncle Leon and Uncle Robert.
Yes. All Nimitz had after Pearl Harbor was a few carriers and a submarine flotilla. And he intended to us them to the max.
He raised his flag on the USS Grayling, a submarine because there were no battleships available and he was, well, Nimitz.
Grayling did not make it through the War. Grayling's memorial is a few miles from my house on a lake at Sloan's Lake Park in Denver.
Today's bureaucrat admirals? We'd only know if war came, but I'm not optimistic.
https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_200510220.asp# Lifted word for word off FreeRepublic.com, btw.
My Dad was there, gunners mate on a destroyer. RIP.
I disagree. Harrelson is a vapid fool, which ironically makes him a good actor. IMHO, people with weak character and minimal awareness of reality generally make good actors because, like a chameleon, their true colors change with their situations (i.e. roles). This is not to say people with strong moral convictions can't be good actors, it just takes a lot more work on their behalf.
I thought Harrelson was excellent in "Cheers." It was really his breakthrough role, and after the loss of the Coach character, the show probably would have folded sooner rather than later without a strong replacement. He was excellent in last year's "The Highwaymen," which a lot on this board lauded for its conservative themes, and I can also highly recommend Season 1 of HBO's "True Detective," where Harrelson saves the show despite the miserable acting of Matthew McConaughey.
“Grayling did not make it through the War. Grayling’s memorial is a few miles from my house on a lake at Sloan’s Lake Park in Denver.”
Now that is fascinating. $:)
Yeah I think Nimitz would have been aggressive if all he had been left with was his subs and a few destroyers. It wasn’t in his nature to play defense.
One of my favorite Nimitz quotes:
“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”
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I’ll agree, insofar as different styles of command are needed for different situations. Halsey’s style was more dynamic, Spruance’s more by-the-book. Regardless, he was of very high character, for example:
> So far as my getting five star rank is concerned, if I could have got it along with Bill Halsey, that would have been fine; but, if I had received it instead of Bill Halsey, I would have been very unhappy over it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_A._Spruance
> [Nimitz] lies alongside his wife and his long-term friends Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral Richmond K. Turner, and Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and their wives, an arrangement made by all of them while living.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz
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