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| | Californians and the Military: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: A Five Star Submariner |
 | | To Nimitz fell the honor of signing the Japanese surrender documents on behalf of the United States aboard the battleship MISSOURI (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, and was detached two months later. |
 | | During this period, Earl Warren, Governor of California, extended Nimitz an invitation to become a regent of the University of California. |
 | | In March of 1949, he was nominated as Plebiscite Administrator for Kashmir under the United Nations, but when that did not materialize he asked to be relieved and accepted an assignment as a roving goodwill ambassador of the United Nations, to explain to the public the major issues confronting the United Nations. |
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