STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE DAYS THAT DEFINED THE 2nd WORLD WAR The man who put his whole effort to victory without looking for personal gain The man who, at Midway, pushed United State’s History into their finest hour The forgotten avenger of Pearl Harbor, and the ignored savior of Australia The man who stopped the enemy three times while defending the wakening giant His victories when America was scared and his silence when she forgot him The man who gave the world a great lesson in strategy and leadership at Midway A lesson that nobody understood because tactics was all that everybody knew The man who sank six Japanese aircraft carriers at the cost of losing only two The man who caused the enemy to lose their best and irreplaceable aviators A man whose image Morison destroyed & whose career Ernest King ruined But whom Nimitz attempted to return and whom Spruance said he admired What the world got from his victories and how the world paid him for them The man who not being a carrier officer, won all carrier battles that he fought MIDWAY, CORAL SEA & GUADALCANAL ARE LIGHTHOUSES ILUMINATING HIS MEMORY     THE DAYS OF FLETCHER THE VICTOR OF MIDWAY   ‘If it had not been for what you did and took with the Yorktown,I am firmly convinced that we would have been badly defeated and the Japs would be holding Midway today” (Ray Spruance’s letter to Fletcher. June 8, 1942)     A MAN WHOSE MERE EXISTENCE, DIGNIFIED THE COUNTRY THAT FATHERED HIM No other leader, except perhaps D. MacArthur, fought so well, with so little. The most wise and smart commander and the least understood by historians The man who stopped a great empire in the darkest night of all world history The man who won sixty per cent of all the aircraft carrier battles ever fought The man who made valuable the Senior Officer role as Operational Strategist The man who was an avenger without ships and a vanquisher without glory A great commander when being a great commander was the way to triumph Other admirals became heroes when industry gave them hundreds of ships Master of strategy among great admirals – his pupils at his great victories The only winning admiral under Nimitz when the odds were the wrong way The man whose useless relief was rapidly followed by the lost of two carriers The most succesful Carrier Admiral – three Great Victories – in all History The man who taught us to be winners, when we were so weak and so afraid