As a wartime fleet commander, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance crossed the Pacific, from Midway to Saipan to Okinawa, the hard way. In 1952 he crossed it with ease to become U.S. Ambassador at Manila ...

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. Pp. 518. Illus., maps, charts, index. $34.95. ISBN:0-870-21562-0 Raymond Ames Spruance lived – and worked – in the shadow of William F. Halsey. Yet, it was ...