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Nimitz at war : command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
\"NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO, as a new assistant professor in the History Department at the U.S. Naval Academy, I shared an office suite with Elmer B. \"Ned\" Potter. Ned had taught at the Naval Academy since before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was also the co-editor with Chester Nimitz of the book Sea Power (1961), which we all used as a text in the required naval history course that I subsequently taught at the Academy for thirty years. Ned knew Nimitz well having worked closely with him on Sea Power. Ned's biography of the admiral (entitled, simply, Nimitz) appeared in 1976, and he kindly gave me an inscribed copy. I still have it. Since we shared a telephone line, I often took calls intended for him. My favorites were from his wife Grace, a Virginia lady in every sense of that term. She never identified herself, as in \"Hello Craig, this is Grace Potter.\" She never had to. When I heard, \"Wheyal, halloh thayah\"-each word two distinct syllables-it could be no one else. I never got a call from Nimitz since he had died in 1966, but Nimitz was very much a part of the many conversations Ned and I had about naval history until Ned retired in 1977. We remained friends until he died twenty years later in 1997. I hope he would have approved of the wartime portrait of the admiral that I offer here\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles
Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) encountered by military, commercial, and civilian aircraft have been reported to be structured craft that exhibit ‘impossible’ flight characteristics. We consider a handful of well-documented encounters, including the 2004 encounters with the Nimitz Carrier Group off the coast of California, and estimate lower bounds on the accelerations exhibited by the craft during the observed maneuvers. Estimated accelerations range from almost 100 g to 1000s of gs with no observed air disturbance, no sonic booms, and no evidence of excessive heat commensurate with even the minimal estimated energies. In accordance with observations, the estimated parameters describing the behavior of these craft are both anomalous and surprising. The extreme estimated flight characteristics reveal that these observations are either fabricated or seriously in error, or that these craft exhibit technology far more advanced than any known craft on Earth. In many cases, the number and quality of witnesses, the variety of roles they played in the encounters, and the equipment used to track and record the craft favor the latter hypothesis that these are indeed technologically advanced craft. The observed flight characteristics of these craft are consistent with the flight characteristics required for interstellar travel, i.e., if these observed accelerations were sustainable in space, then these craft could easily reach relativistic speeds within a matter of minutes to hours and cover interstellar distances in a matter of days to weeks, proper time.
Journal Article
WHAT WAS NIMITZ THINKING?
New sources of information reveal that in the run-up to the crucial Pacific War Battle of Midway, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was willing to fight a potential five enemy carriers with two of his own, if Yorktown could not be repaired in time. Why would Nimitz accept those odds, and what likely would have been the outcome had such a battle taken place?
Journal Article
Movement and Maneuver at Leyte, October 1944
Several key findings emerge from studying the Leyte operation, centered around the concept of joint movement and maneuver in a multidomain fight. First, as many have noted, the US operation benefited from successful movement and maneuver; however, the command and control structure of US forces in King II created vulnerabilities that might have been avoided with greater unity of command or better integrated planning. Second, the case study reminds that timely, high-quality intelligence is vital to effective movement and maneuver. Recall that Halsey's air patrols in Sep 1944 discovered Japanese airpower to be much weaker than expected in the southern Philippines. Third, successful movement and maneuver required concerted actions in all three major domains of the time: land, sea, and air. In a maritime theater, the US Navy had to move all the land forces and most of the air forces to the fight. Once within range of the enemy, aerial and naval maneuvers and fires enabled successful land operations at Leyte on an accelerated timeline. Finally, the rush of forces into the Leyte fight--complicated command relationships notwithstanding--foreshadowed future joint and coalition operations up to the present day.
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Historical profiles. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WWII to turn the tide of the War in the Pacific.
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