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Chester Nimitz, based in Pearl...

history · 12 May 1942 · 83 years ago

Chester Nimitz, based in Pearl Harbor in US Territory of Hawaii, received orders from Ernest King to withdraw William Halsey's carrier task force from areas near Japanese land-based aircraft, but Halsey was to remain in South Pacific region. 

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