L to R) Admirals Raymond A. Spruance, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz, and B. Gen. Sanderford Jarman on Saipan, c. 1944-1945. As a last minute replacement for the hospitalized Adm. William F. Halsey, Spruance commanded the sparse U.S. task force b

 
 

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