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Aus dem Gedächtnis (da z.Zt. ohne Unterlagen) weißich dass Y. in Harvard studiert hat, ich glaube er war auch bei der Londoner Konferenz dabei und hatte zwei Touren als Marineattaché in DC. Da Nimitz recht jung schon Kdr der Atlantik U-Boote war (1917) ist ein Treffen zwischen Beiden nicht unwahrscheinlich, inwiefern man das aber als "Kennen" bezeichnen kann vermag ich nicht zu beurteilenAxel
...........In 1919 he was sent to the USA to study English. He lived in Boston where he learnt to play poker, its mixture of bluff, luck, and anticipation appealing to his temperament. But besides studying the language he was learning about oil, which he knew to be fundamental to the existence of a modern navy.He returned to Japan in 1921 and in 1924 was given his first major assignment, as executive officer of a naval air station, becoming one of Japan's foremost experts in military aviation. In 1926 he was made naval attaché in Washington and returned two years later with a low opinion of the US Navy which he described as a club for golfers and bridge players, though he never had illusions about American power as a whole. By the time of the 1930 London naval conference, which he attended, he was a rear-admiral and in September 1930 was assigned to Naval Air Corps headquarters. ...