Admiral Chester Nimitz may have been the most important single figure in winning the war in the Pacific during WW2. (Go ahead and argue with me, I could be wrong.) Nimitz wasn’t a warrior like MacArthur. Nimitz was a planner, an organizer, and a people person.
A person who knew how to overcome a mistake. Early in Nimitz’s career he ran his destroyer onto a sand bar. He was almost kicked out of…