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Photo #: NH 104263 (complete caption)

"Leaders of the Central Pacific Campaign"

"Admiral C.W. Nimitz, USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, and his subordinate Army, Navy and Marine Corps Officers who are directing Central Pacific operations, are shown while inspecting Army troops who are participating in corrent operations." (quoted from an original 1943 vintage picture caption).
Photographed on board an attack transport (probably USS Leonard Wood, APA-12) in November 1943. The officers standing in the front row are, from left to right:
Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN;
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN;
Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson, Jr., USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area;
Brigadier General Henry B. Holmes, Jr., USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area Major General Ralph Smith, USA, Commanding General, Twenty-Seventh Infantry Division;
Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, USMC, Commander Assault Troops, Central Pacific; and
Rear Admiral Charles. H. McMorris, USN, Chief of Staff, U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Collection of Vice Admiral Robert C. Giffen, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 1 January 2007