“The nation mourns the loss of a great war leader, stricken at a time when his services could ill be speared. And the world at large mourns the death of a man in whom it placed its trust. But we of the Navy mourn the loss of our sailor leader and loyal and devoted friend.”
A few months earlier, Admiral Pratt wrote and article about Fleet Admiral Nimitz, click here to read it…
– from Amazon:
Mr. Roosevelt’s Navy: The Private War of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942
