Chester Nimitz
Chester Nimitz Biography
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From Wikipedia “Chester William Nimitz was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.[2]
Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. He also, beginning in 1917, was the Navy’s leading developer of underway replenishment techniques, the tool which during the Pacific war would allow the US fleet to operate away from port almost indefinitely. The chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Navigation in 1939, Nimitz served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1945 until 1947. He was the United States’ last surviving officer who served in the rank of fleet admiral. The USS Nimitz supercarrier, the lead ship of her class, is named after him.” [3]
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At the height of the Pacific War, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded more than two million men and women, 5,000 ships and 20,000 planes, but one would not have predicted that distinguished future judging by Nimitz’s first command. {5]
Quick Facts:
| Full Name | Chester Nimitz |
| Birth Date | February 24, 1885 |
| Birth Place | Fredericksburg, Texasa |
| Death Date | February 20, 1966 (aged 80) |
| Career | |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Vance Freeman on April 9, 1913 |
| Children | |
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz
Atomicheritage.org states “10 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt promoted Nimitz to commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet as an Admiral. The rank of vice admiral was skipped by congressional appointment. Nimitz had operational control over all allied units in the Pacific, including air, land, and sea forces. Under his leadership, the United States stopped the further advance of the Japanese after Pearl Harbor and organized a sharp offensive response across a massive geographic area.” (12)
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- **Presidential Flag Graphic source: Zscout370 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
- (P1) By US Navy – Downloaded from https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-n/nimitz-chester-w.htmlCropped from original https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chester_Nimitz_as_CNO.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83799066
- (P2) By unknown photographer — now belonging to Commonwealth of Australia – http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/040965 — Australian War Memorial, ID 040965, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4271469
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- (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz
- (5) https://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/about/admiral-nimitz
- (12) https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/chester-w-nimitz