The naval bracket begins m'harteys!
There are 10! choices, so there are 5 picks per poster.
Poll will be open for 7 days
Good Luck to every admiral.
Nelson
Yamamoto
De Ruyter
Yi Sun-Shin
Drake
Themosticles
Nimitz
Togo
Don Jon of Austria
Doenitz
The naval bracket begins m'harteys!
There are 10! choices, so there are 5 picks per poster.
Poll will be open for 7 days
Good Luck to every admiral.
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Have you just been dumped?
I ask because it's usually something like that which causes outbursts like this, needless to say I dissagree completely.
What is Nimitz doing here - the man sailed a desk in WW2. It should be Spruance or Halsey, the men doing it not the man signing the order requestions. And also where is ABC? - the finest English Admiral in WW2. My definition of a fine admiral is one who is at sea and wins the battles, not one who has a big ship named after him.
Rant over - I will retire to my bunker and await the brickbats.![]()
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My first balloon- for "On this day in History"
Ya, or you could start from scratch and defeat the dominating navy of the pacific, and come up with a grand strategy to defeat the japenese, and serve for two world wars and continue after, and also serve on several ships from ensign to Fleet Admiral...
Or you could just go on a ship and say you were there...whatever...
Don't deny the man's talent as head of the navy - although I would dispute the starting the from scratch to beat the japanese - most capital building programmes had been in train since the late 30's. Also the US forces in the Pacific were inevitably going to win in the Pacific due to weight of men and material - the production capacity and material resources of the US meant that would eventually overwhelm the Japanese forces. Now Nimitz did an excellent job in marshalling those forces and he created an atmosphere of always going forward, but it was the Admirals in the front line that achieved the victories - Nimitz gave them the tools, but they were the people who used them.
As for Cunningham, his achievements border on the miraculious. using fairly outdated equipment - WW1 vintage BBs and carriers with biplanes - he reguarly defeated a modern navy with an extensive modern land based airforce to support it. It was his attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto that was the model for Pearl Harbour - with the exception that we were at war with Italy when we attacked them!!
I suppose my point is that the poll should be about the achievments of Admirals at sea, fighting the enemy just over the horizon, not the person shapping and equipping the force - for example Eisenhower isn't in the modern generals poll. These guys were important - arguebly vital - but how can you compare a frontline admiral with a chief of staff - they aren't doing the same job.
"Some people say MTW is a matter of life or death - but you have to realise it is more important than that"
With apologies to Bill Shankly
My first balloon- for "On this day in History"
But Nimitz was an admiral at sea!! he worked his way up from ensign to fleet admiral.
Its too bad people dont read about him much... disregardin him as if he was nothing![]()
Don't worry, I voted for him.![]()
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