Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases, December 10, 1941 to March 5, 1943

Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases, December 10, 1941 to March 5, 1943
Title Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases, December 10, 1941 to March 5, 1943 PDF eBook
Author United States. Navy Department. Office of Public Relations
Publisher
Pages 526
Release 1943
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases

Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases
Title Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases PDF eBook
Author United States. Navy Department. Office of Public Relations
Publisher
Pages 204
Release 1943
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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Navy Department Communiques 1-624

Navy Department Communiques 1-624
Title Navy Department Communiques 1-624 PDF eBook
Author United States. Navy Department. Office of Public Relations
Publisher
Pages 212
Release 1943
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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Navy Department Communiques

Navy Department Communiques
Title Navy Department Communiques PDF eBook
Author United States. Navy Department
Publisher
Pages 208
Release 1943
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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An Annotated Bibliography of the United States Marine Corps in the Second World War

An Annotated Bibliography of the United States Marine Corps in the Second World War
Title An Annotated Bibliography of the United States Marine Corps in the Second World War PDF eBook
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Pages 52
Release 1965
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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Marine Corps Historical Bibliographies

Marine Corps Historical Bibliographies
Title Marine Corps Historical Bibliographies PDF eBook
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Pages 52
Release 1965
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Nimitz’s Newsman

Nimitz’s Newsman
Title Nimitz’s Newsman PDF eBook
Author Hamilton Bean
Publisher Naval Institute Press
Pages 288
Release 2024-09-17
Genre History
ISBN 1682470342

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When Lt. Cdr. Waldo Drake, USNR arrived in Pearl Harbor in June 1941 as the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s first Public Relations Officer (PRO), he was an admired maritime reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Reserve Officer appointed to intelligence duties. By October 1944, he was hated by most of the correspondents assigned to cover the war against Japan and seen by officials in Washington as an obstacle to the development of Navy public relations. What led Drake to become the Pacific Fleet’s first PRO, what happened during the three years he served on the CINCPAC staff, and why he was removed from that position are the focus of Nimitz’s Newsman: Waldo Drake and the Navy’s Censored War in the Pacific. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Adm. Chester Nimitz, USN assumed command of the Pacific Fleet and inherited Drake’s services. Drake became responsible for informing America’s press about the Pacific Fleet’s wartime role and thus gained an outsized ability to influence American public opinion. The Navy’s decision to allow public relations officers to censor press copy caused numerous conflicts between Drake and the correspondents assigned to the Fleet. It was Drake’s love for the Navy, his tendency to take on every job himself, and above all his close relationship with Adm. Nimitz that allowed him to perform censorship duties with approval. Drake’s protection of Nimitz, and his reticence to give the press any information that could endanger operational security or dampen morale, caused Navy victories to go under-reported—much to the consternation of officials in Washington. In analyzing the dynamics of Drake and Nimitz’s relationship, and in highlighting Drake’s interactions with correspondents and Navy officials, Nimitz’s Newsman reveals the inside story of the Navy’s censored war in the Pacific during World War II.