Nimitz Leadership Qualities

Six months after Pearl Harbor the American Navy under the command of Admiral Chester Nimitz launched an attack at Midway Atoll. History from that point forward has painted the American victory as one owed to Lady Luck more than ingenuity, skill, or superior tactics. Craig Symonds believes, in his book Midway, that despite the shock of that devastating day at Pearl Harbor, it is due to old fashioned human know how that won the battle at Midway. According to him it is “people who make history…”, and carefully he attempts to argue in Midway, that people, not chance, earned victory that day at Midway Atoll. Throughout the book pieces are put together to build this argument. Symonds not only informs us of who the men were that made victory possible, but goes a step further to explain why they were capable, and qualified. Nimitz was not just presented as the right man for the job because of something as trivial as being a war hero, or receiving high marks. It is his known ability to remain calm in intense situations, that allows him to focus on the problem at hand when it seems all else is falling apart. Exactly what was needed in cleaning up the mess that had been Pearl Harbor, and bouncing back from it. Nimitz was considered without question for Commander in Chief, Pacific, because of this. So not only is it carefully shown what men
Without of which they may never have known about the situation at the Coral Seal. And without the Battle at Coral Sea they may never have been tested enough to secure victory at Midway Atoll. These codebreakers were housed in what became known as “the Dungeon” at Pearl harbor, and led by Joe Rochefort who was described as a “serious-minded, and entirely professional naval officer”. The information he managed to gather leader them to japanese Carrier Division 5 in the Coral