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Chester W. Nimitz

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The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.
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On his training for warfare in the Pacific at the Naval War college in 1922, as quoted at The American Experience (PBS)

 
Chester W. Nimitz

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