Admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chester W. Nimitz">Chester W. Nimitz</a>, appointed commander of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pacific_Fleet" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Pacific Fleet">U.S. Pacific Fleet</a> on December 17,<sup about="#mwt171" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_25#cite_note-32" id="mwAT0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAT4">[32]</span></a></sup> arrives at Pearl Harbor.<sup about="#mwt175" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-33"}}' id="cite_ref-33" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_25#cite_note-33" id="mwAT8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 33;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUA">[33]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"><cite about="#mwt168" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHoyt2012">Hoyt, Edwin P. (2012). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1JBBAAAQBAJ" id="mwCWs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCWw">How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals</i></a>. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press. p.<span id="mwCW0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>25. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCW8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780762772858" id="mwCXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780762772858"><bdi id="mwCXE">9780762772858</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt168" class="Z3988" id="mwCXI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=How+They+Won+the+War+in+the+Pacific%3A+Nimitz+and+His+Admirals&amp;rft.place=Guilford%2C+Conn.&amp;rft.pages=25&amp;rft.pub=Lyons+Press&amp;rft.date=2012&amp;rft.isbn=9780762772858&amp;rft.aulast=Hoyt&amp;rft.aufirst=Edwin+P.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZ1JBBAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+25"></span></span>