Though Yamamoto was a gambler, he was also a realist. Nonetheless, for several more hours he continued to behave as if victory were still possible. When Spruance turned Task Force 16 eastward after dark, Yamamoto sent a radio message to all units that the American fleet, which he announced had &#...
Commissioned in October, six weeks before Pearl Harbor, she remained in Norfolk over the winter as she fitted out, and it was not until March of 1942 that she was ready for sea with a crew, an air group, and a commanding officer. That commanding officer was Captain Marc A. Mitscher, whose Academy...
At that rate, he noted, there would be some 135,000 American soldiers—about nine divisions—in England by August 1943, in position for a swift cross-Channel assault in case of a German collapse. Of course, Germany did not collapse that summer, nor did the Americans manage to ship twelve thousand G...
