Chester W. Nimitz

(noun)

A five-star admiral of the United States Navy (1885–1966). He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for United States and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.[ 1] He was the leading U.S. Navy authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939. He served as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from until 1947. He was the United States' last surviving Fleet Admiral.

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Examples of Chester W. Nimitz in the following topics:

  • Nimitz in the Central Pacific

    • Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral of the United States Navy, played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces.
    • Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Chester W.
    • Nimitz was selected Commander in Chief of the U.S.
    • Admiral Chester Nimitz, representing the United States, signs the instrument of surrender, September 2, 1945.
    • Nimitz was a five-star admiral of the United States Navy.

  • MacArthur's Leapfrogging

    • Allied forces from the Pacific Ocean Areas command—under Admiral Chester W.
    • Nimitz—advanced through the Solomon Islands toward Bougainville.
    • Nimitz and MacArthur agreed that the next step should be to advance on the southern and central Philippines.

  • Leapfrogging to Tokyo

    • The Pacific Ocean Theater officially came into existence on March 30, 1942, when US Admiral Chester Nimitz was appointed Supreme Allied Commander Pacific Ocean Areas.
    • Both Nimitz and MacArthur, overseen by the US Joint Chiefs and the western Allies Combined Chiefs of Staff, applied leapfrogging and island hopping as major strategies.
    • Forces led by Admiral Chester Nimitz, with a smaller land force and larger fleet, would advance north towards the island and capture the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Marianas, going generally in the direction of the Bonin Islands.
    • Roosevelt (middle), General MacArthur (left), and Admiral Nimitz (right) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, July 26, 1944, National Archives and Records Administration.
    • US Admiral Chester Nimitz was appointed Supreme Allied Commander Pacific Ocean Areas.

  • Garfield and Arthur

    • As president, Chester Arthur continued many of the reforms of his predecessor, though he had benefited from the spoils system himself.
    • When told that his party, including his own campaign manager, Stephen W.
    • A lawyer from upstate New York, after the Civil War, Chester A.

  • Civil Service Reform

    • Chester A.
    • Hayes was forced to wait until July 1878 when, during a Congressional recess, he fired Arthur and Cornell and replaced them through the recess appointments of Merritt and Silas W.
    • While reform legislation did not pass during Hayes's presidency, his advocacy provided, "a significant precedent as well as the political impetus for the Pendleton Act of 1883," which was signed into law by President Chester Arthur.
    • Hayes kicking Chester A.