Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) flag White explores what dreams meant

White explores what dreams meant to Civil War–era Americans and what their dreams reveal about their experiences during the war

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Thousands more have faded into historical obscurity

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Throughout the ceaseless warfare

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) flag White explores what dreams meantby Craig L. Symonds Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U. S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the