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78 Years ago TODAY...Battle of Midway...always remember.
05 June 2020 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 06/05/2020 3:43:06 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Japan; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 19420603; battleofmidway; empireofjapan; godsgravesglyphs; japan; johnparshall; midway; worldwareleven
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


41 posted on 06/05/2020 8:26:00 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: US Navy Vet

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.


42 posted on 06/05/2020 10:57:53 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: oldvirginian
Strangely Nimitz was a submarine guy, for most of the time between wars he commanded subs and sub flotillas.

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.

43 posted on 06/05/2020 11:58:36 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv
Nimitz, Spruance and Halsey were an amazing team. Frankly, of the fleet commanders, I think Spruance was the better commander, but Halsey was certainly colorful and got the sailor's attention

Today's bureaucrat admirals? We'd only know if war came, but I'm not optimistic.

44 posted on 06/06/2020 12:11:52 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: US Navy Vet

https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_200510220.asp# Lifted word for word off FreeRepublic.com, btw.


45 posted on 06/06/2020 4:42:37 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: US Navy Vet

My Dad was there, gunners mate on a destroyer. RIP.


46 posted on 06/06/2020 5:00:14 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: GreyFriar
"I was pleasantly surprised with Woody Harrelson’s performance in Midway. It is the only decent performance I can credit him with other than being the drunken mentor in the Hunger Games trilogy."

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.

47 posted on 06/06/2020 5:13:00 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: colorado tanker

“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.”


48 posted on 06/06/2020 6:52:15 AM PDT by oldvirginian (The average "progressive" makes Jethro Bodean look like Albert Einstein)
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To: SunkenCiv

4L8R


49 posted on 06/06/2020 8:10:13 AM PDT by The FIGHTIN Illini (Wake up fellow Patriots before it's too late)
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To: colorado tanker

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


50 posted on 06/06/2020 8:52:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

> [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


51 posted on 06/06/2020 10:29:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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