PREVIEW-PRESIDENTS-WEEKEND-#FDR: NAVY: #GUADALCANAL: From a conversation with Professor Emeritus of the Naval Academy Craig Symonds explaining the quandary for FDR's admirals in the early months of the Pacific War, with Admiral Robert Gormley struggling t

PREVIEW-PRESIDENTS-WEEKEND-#FDR: NAVY: #GUADALCANAL: From a conversation with Professor Emeritus of the Naval Academy Craig Symonds explaining the quandary for FDR's admirals in the early months of the Pacific War, with Admiral Robert Gormley struggling to maintain the Guadalcanal beachhead and Admiral Chester Nimitz sympathetic but candid that Gormley is not doing the job.  More of this on President's Weekend: Roosevelt's Navy.

1942 Japanese bomber (Kate)