Nimitz was one bad-ass!
I remember a Brit or Aussie on Quora criticized me because he said I didn’t give the Commonwealth their “fair share” of the Too American centric he said.
So I looked up the number of commonwealth ships in the battle and it was 2, only one of which was significant, a light cruiser.
He was a gambler, and a lucky one at that. We were lucky to have him, but it could have gone differently. You could say the same of Macarthur too I guess.