Raymond Spruance. One of the empirical proofs God loves the United States was the illness that kept Halsey from commanding at Midway.
An imperfect analogy but Halsey would be to Patton as Spruance was to Bradley.
Spruance, IMHO had the ability to see most of the possibilities of a situation and pick out the one that would yield the best results. Midway, is about the only time I can think of when Spruance took an uncalculated risk when he launched his aircraft when he did.
An intersting scenario would have been if Spruance had been in command at Leyte Gulf instead of Halsey, eh.
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