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the Pacific War, 52–53. Characterization of Nimitz: Ernest Eller, quoted in Elarco Productions, The Nimitz Story. “Tell Nimitz”: Potter, Nimitz, 11. “An unshared front”: Courtney, “We Must Win the Pacific,” 15. “One of the few people I know”: Larrabee, Commander in chief, 389. “Go back and vote”: Potter, Nimitz, 10. “You always wanted to command”: Ibid., 11–12. “Subconsciously he sought”: Buell, Master of Sea Power, 11. “Sometimes my bark”: Glover, Command Performance with Guts, 34. King’s view of Fletcher: Butcher, “Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher,” 73. “Undoubtedly these acts”: King, “Target Practice on Whales and Other Marine Mammals,” 1. “His greatest weakness”: Baldwin, “Confidential Notes,” January 25, 1944. “So tough he shaved”: Graybar, “Admiral King’s Toughest Battle,” 39. “One thing that might help”: Ferrell, The Eisenhower Diaries, 48, 50. “If only I could keep him tight”: Larrabee, Commander in Chief, 356. “You are requested to read”: Buell, Master, 177. “I will be lucky to last six months”: Nimitz to Mrs. Nimitz, March 22, 1942. “It must be constantly reiterated”: Stoler, Allies and Adversaries, 78. “The whole question of whether”: Ibid., 85. “I sent an order to Admiral Nimitz”: King to Edson, September 29, 1949, 2. “We would nowhere be acting”: Stoler, Allies, 82. “We should turn to the Pacific”: Ibid. “Stop the enemy”: King to Edson, September 29, 1949, 2–4. “Turn our backs”: Stoler, Allies, 82. “A lot of islands”: Ibid., 85. “We failed to see”: Buell, Master, 192. “Congressmen are receiving”: Newsweek, “The Periscope” (column), January 12, 1942, 7. “King’s war is”: Stoler, Allies, 88.

2: A Great Gray Fleet

“On calm days”: Graff, “World War II Writings, Document 7.” Launching of Atlanta: Leavelle, “The Log of the Mighty A,” March 24, 1943; Mustin interview, 184–185. “With the same pride”: Leavelle, “The Log,” March 24, 1942. Atlanta’s radars: Mustin interview, 453–459. “A rather dull tableau”: Leavelle, “The Log,” March 25, 1943. “To my artist’s eye” and “a glorious hoax”: Shaw, Beside Me Still, 81–82. “I think the answer”: Ibid., 97. “What he jammed”: Vandegrift, Once a Marine, 18. “Absolutely essential to stop” and “King’s reiteration of”: King, Fleet Admiral King, 388. “Must be conducted”: Ibid, 387. Boundary between SOPAC AND SOWESPAC: COMINCH to CINCPAC, July 3, 1942 (0221). “Three weeks ago”: Buell, Master of Sea Power, 203. Repair of Task Force 1: Fuquea, “Task Force One,” 709–714. Fuel usage: Ibid., 716–717. “We’re up against a navy”: Mustin diary, May 14, 1942. “What in the world”: Weaver, “Some Reminiscences of the Pacific War.” “The knowledge of the geography”: Ghormley, “The Tide Turns,” 1. “Since my arrival”: Ghormley to Frank Knox, October 11, 1940, Ghormley Papers. “Every day I was in London”: Ghormley, “The Tide,” 3. “Dissatisfied, proud, grasping”: Ibid., 6–7. “Robinson Crusoe should be required”: Gardner interview, 2.

3: The First D-Day

“We kept very quiet”: Kinkaid, Four Years of War, 192–194. “We were conscious of”: Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary, 8. “Loose talk is a stupid habit”: Ghormley to SOPAC command, “Disclosure of Information,” 1. “I have smiled many times”: Soule, Shooting the Pacific War, 44. Changes to Japanese code groups: Showers, speech, Nimitz Symposium 2007; Frank, Guadalcanal, 38–41. “I informed him”: Ghormley, “The Tide Turns,” 100–101. “I had experienced”: Jones, The USS, Astoria (CA-34) and the Men Who Sailed Her, 30. “Monday, Monday, Tuesday”: Hirama, “Japanese Naval Preparations,” 66. “I never could figure out”: Custer, Through the Perilous Night, 94. “You will be governed”: Nimitz quoted in Hoyt, How They Won the War in the Pacific, 94. Invasion rehearsals in 1939: Larrabee, Commander in Chief, 178. “I saw that its shore”: Bennink, narrative, 2. “From an intelligence point of view”: Hough, History of U.S. Marine Corps, 242–243. “Some of us were”: Kinkaid, Four Years, 207. “Neither sharp nor perspicacious”: Loxton, The Shame of Savo, 18. Carrier air support controversy: Lundstrom, Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, 333–337; Turner to Hepburn, “Answers to Questionnaire,”