FILE - This undated file photo shows Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Pacific during World War II, sitting on a desk in an unknown location. The U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., released a trove of World War II information by posting online Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, the operational diary kept by Adm. Nimitz during the war against Japan. The more than 4,000 pages includes a running estimate of the situation for every day of the war in the Pacific compiled by Nimitz's planning staff, starting with the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. (AP Photo, File)
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