melkor the first

I had to go with Raymond Spruance because he was the man who made the great decisions during the battles(and also ordered his ships lit on June 5th- at a much more perilous time of the war than 1944 but doesn't get the credit that Jocko Clark and Mitscher do.) I believe that one of the reasons that he fought the Battle of the Phillipine Sea in the manner that he did had to do with the disfavor that Kelly Turner had fallen into with the Marines for withdrawing the transports at Guadalcanal. Spruance could have ordered Turner to pull out, depriving the Japanese of their targets and operating more aggressively but I believe that he did not want Admiral Turner to be subjected to more criticism- not to mention the fact that he believed that he could win the Battle anyway that he fought.Much as I admire Admiral Nimitz, Midway was fought between Adms Fletcher and Spruance and Nagumo and Yamaguchi(who could have been the greatest Japanese Admiral had HE commanded at Pearl Harbor and or Midway) E-4 USMC JWC