* Indian Navy needs an Admiral like Nimitz now*
*PEARL HARBOR AND ADMIRAL NIMITZ.*
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*Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He
landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941.**There was such a spirit of
despair, dejection and defeat --you would have thought the Japanese had
already won the war. *
*On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the
Destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. **Big sunken
battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters Every where you looked. *
*As the tour boat returned to dock,the young helmsman of the boat asked,
"Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?"*
*Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within earshot. He** said, "The
Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever
make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?"*
*Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying
the Japanese made the three biggest Mistakes an attack force ever made?"*
*Nimitz explained....*
*Mistake number one: **The Japanese attacked on Sunday morning.**Nine out
of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same
ships had been lured to sea and been sunk, we would have lost 38,000 men
instead of 3,800.*
*Mistake number two: **When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined
in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships. They never
once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. **If they had destroyed our
dry docks, We would have had to tow every one of those Ships to America to
be repaired.*
*As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. **One tug
can pull them over to the dry docks and we can have them repaired and at
sea by the time we could have towed them to America. I already have crews
ashore anxious to man those ships.*
*Mistake number three: **Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war
is on top of the Ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One
attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply.
That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack
force could make Or, God was taking care of America .*
*I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. **It is still an
inspiration as I reflect upon it. **In jest, I might suggest that because
Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredericksburg, Texas, he
was a born optimist. **But anyway you look at it, Admiral Nimitz was able
to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance Where everyone else
saw only despair and defeatism.*
*President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. They
needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of
dejection, despair and defeat.*
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