Nimitz was one bad-ass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OkobvFECwA&ab_channel=UnauthorizedHistoryofthePacificWarPodcast
Perhaps a bit more history than britannica.com offers. For those interested.
Brought to you by The Greatest Generation !!!
If we only had half of that leadership these days...
My father was an MM striker in one of USS Yorktown’s engine rooms during the Coral Sea battle. If it had not been for a change in his GQ station the day before the battle starterd, he would have been killed when the ship was hit the second day of the battle.
“Scratch one flattop!” - Robert E. Dixon
Aussies shocked the Japs for a few weeks when a couple dozen American P-40s were diverted to them after the fall of Rubaul. Nearly suicidal defense of northern Australia/Port Moresby bought some time for Americans to show up. Aussie heroes, for sure.