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347, 353
    Nimitz, Chester: described, 6
    characterized, 7–8, 24, 66
    service career, 13–15
    appointed CinCPac, 12
    arrives in Pearl Harbor, 6–8
    relations with King, 12, 64–65, 76–77, 82–85, 91, 100, 183–84
    relations with Fletcher, 193–95, 214
    and Pacific strategy, 21, 24, 51–52, 64, 66, 76
    and the Doolittle raid, 122
    and code breaking, 138–39, 144–45, 186–88, 213
    and the Coral Sea, 147–50, 153, 158, 170–71
    and planning for Midway, 84–85, 105, 186–89, 191–92
    orders for Midway, 195–96, 214, 258
    report on Midway, 289
    postwar career, 361
    quoted, 357
    mentioned, 5, 17, 23, 26, 35, 49, 75, 209, 358
    photo, 14
    Norris, Benjamin, 242–43, 335n
    North American airplanes. See Mitchell bomber
    Northampton (American cruiser), 18, 82
    Nowaki (Japanese destroyer), 310
    O’Flaherty, Frank W., 313n
    O’Hare, Edward (Butch), 79–81, 79n
    photo, 80
    Ōi Atsushi, 38
    Okada Jisaku, 302
    Okada Keisuke, 28
    Okaga Tametsugu, 224
    Okinoshima (Japanese minelayer), 156
    Oklahoma (American battleship), 6
    OP-20-G (code and signals section), 135–36, 182–83, 185
    Opa-Locka Naval Air Station, 61–62
    Operation AL. See Alaska
    Operation K, 206–11, 288
    photo, 207
    map, 208
    Operation MI. See Midway
    Operation MO. See Port Moresby
    Operation RY (attack on Ocean and Nauru Islands), 108
    ordnance, American, 52, 262.
    See also torpedoes
    ordnance, Japanese, 221.
    See also torpedoes
    Osbourne, Edgar, 127
    Osmus, Wesley Frank, 320
    Ōtorojima. See Wake Island
    Owen Stanley Mountains, 85
    Owens, James C., 268
    Ozawa Jisaburō, 35
    Paramushiro Island, 199
    Parks, Floyd, 226–27
    Parshall, Jonathan, 104, 181, 302
    PBY. See Catalina
    Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Japanese attackon, 7, 17–18, 25, 36–37, 42, 91
    Pederson, Oscar (Pete), 59, 156, 166
    at Midway, 281–82, 283
    manages air battle, 313–15, 319
    Penland, Joseph, 300
    Pennsylvania (American battleship), 143
    Pensacola (American cruiser), 323
    Pensacola, Florida (naval training facility), 47, 60–61
    pilots, American: training of, 60–62
    characteristics of, 62–63, 124
    pilots, Japanese: training of, 40–42
    losses of, 174–75, 360
    exhaustion of, 328
    “Plan Dog,” 21–22
    Plan Orange, 19, 32
    Phelps (American destroyer), 172
    Plunger (U.S. submarine), 13
    Point Luck, 197, 212
    Port Moresby, New Guinea, 97, 106
    Operation MO, 108, 109, 145–46, 153
    Powers, John J., 168–69
    Prange, Gordon, 4, 216
    Prince of Wales (British battleship), 43, 74, 95
    Purple (Japanese diplomatic code), 137
    Pye, William S., 84
    described, 15
    and Wake relief expedition, 16–17
    Quam, E. R. (Bud), 325
    Rabaul, 76, 85, 143, 155
    air battle near, 77–81, 97
    radar, 125
    described, 78
    in the Coral Sea, 165–66, 169
    at Midway, 313, 319
    Rainbow Five (war plan), 22
    Ramsey, Dewitt (Duke), 47
    Ramsey, Logan C., 211, 224
    Ranger (American carrier, CV-4), 45
    Redman, John R., 137–38, 147, 182, 365
    photo, 138
    Redman, Joseph R., 138, 365
    Reid, Jewell (Jack), 212–13, 214, 215n
    photo, 213
    Reina Mercedes (American training ship), 46
    Repulse (British battlecruiser), 43, 95
    Richards, William L., 216
    Richardson, Gil, 387
    Richardson, Robert C., 186
    Ring, Stanhope C.: characterized, 246–48
    and the flight to nowhere, 248–49, 255, 258–63, 389
    misses first strike against Hiryō , 331–32
    attacks destroyer Tanikaze , 345–47, 346n
    attacks Japanese cruisers, 351–52
    held back from final attack, 354
    career after Midway, 364
    photo, 246
    Rochefort, Joseph J.: described, 135–39, 141–42
    relations with Layton, 143–45
    and the Coral Sea, 147–48, 159, 165, 170–71, 181–82
    and Midway, 182, 185, 186–88, 186n, 214
    career after Midway, 365
    mentioned, 5, 387
    photo, 136
    Rodee, Walter: and the flight to nowhere, 255, 262–63, 390
    attacks Japanese cruisers, 351, 354
    mentioned, 329, 331
    Roberts, Owen, 10
    Robison, Samuel S., 14
    Roi Island. See Kwajalein Atoll
    Roosevelt, Franklin D.: and E. J. King, 10–11, 76–77
    and Australia, 83
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