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	::Chester Nimitz::
		Nimitz commanded the US Pacific fleet when it was involved in the battles at Coral Sea and Midway and is considered by many to have been an astute tactician and strategist.
		Chester Nimitz was born on February 24th, 1885 in Fredericksburg, Texas.
		In December 1944, Nimitz was promoted to Fleet Admiral and he was one of the signatories on the USS Missouri when the Japanese signed the document confirming her surrender.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /chester_nimitz.htm (645 words)

	Welcome to the National Museum of the Pacific War!
		Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who at the height of the Pacific war commanded over two million men and women, 5,000 ships and 20,000 planes, was of humble and landlocked beginnings.
		Chester Nimitz had a close relationship with his grandfather and often called him "the most important man" in his life.
		On December 19, 1944 Chester W. Nimitz was promoted to the grade of fleet admiral, newly established by the Congress about a year earlier.
	www.nimitz-museum.org /nimitzbio.htm (1160 words)

	The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz
		In the Battle of Midway, Nimitz's fighter-bombers caught the Japanese fleet off guard, as its carrier aircraft were being refueled on deck.
		Nimitz's son and namesake, Chester W. Nimitz Jr., would rise to the same rank of admiral and become a hero of the Pacific war — a submarine commander who would sink a Japanese destroyer bearing down on his boat by firing torpedoes directly into its bow.
		Nimitz's three surviving sisters, Mary Aquinas, 70, is a Catholic nun.
	www.theamericancause.org /patsadsuicide.htm (823 words)

	Californians and the Military: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: A Five Star Submariner
		Chester Nimitz left high school to enter the Naval Academy – sworn in on September 7, 1901, as a new cadet – never actually completing high school, that is, not until after having retired from active duty as a Fleet Admiral.
		Nimitz was instrumental in defeating the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and in molding together the diverse administrative elements of the Pacific Fleet for the war against Japan.
		Chester W. Nimitz, as a Fleet Admiral, was relieved as Chief of Naval Operations by Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, USN, on December 15, 1947.
	www.militarymuseum.org /Nimitz.html (5102 words)

	Chester W. Nimitz
		Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas on February 24, 1885.
		Throughout the war Nimitz remained in command of the vast majority of the naval forces engaged in the Pacific.
		Nimitz's ability to select the best the Navy had to offer for the key command positions in the Pacific, his own tactical ability, and the talent of extracting the best out of the officers and men who served under his command, played an important part in producing the ultimate victory over Japan.
	www.freedomdocuments.com /Nimitz.html (711 words)

	Welcome to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Elementary School
		At Nimitz Elementary, students are accepted as individuals who are entitled to an education which challenges and nurtures them to achieve their full potential as life-long learners and to live as caring, productive citizens of our democratic society.
		Nimitz Elementary School provides a safe, nurturing environment which challenges students to attain the highest levels of achievement (link to standards) and excellence (link to General Learner Outcomes).
		Chester W. Nimitz Elementary School is named in honor of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz (link to his biography), America's outstanding five-star admiral.
	www.k12.hi.us /~nimitz (443 words)

	Chester W. Nimitz
		Charles H. Nimitz was a German immigrant, former seaman, and owner of the Nimitz Hotel.
		Avoiding the political finger pointing over the Pearl Harbor disaster, Fleet Admiral Nimitz concentrated on positives such as the fact that the Pearl Harbor submarine base was spared, and the aircraft carriers survived the attack by going to sea.
		It was with such unwarranted optimism that Nimitz directed the early morale-boosting victories of James Doolittle's carrier-based raid on Japan, and the battles in the Coral Sea and at Midway Island.
	www.famoustexans.com /chesternimitz.htm (1023 words)

	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
		Chester William Nimitz was born on 24 February 1885, near a quaint hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas built by his grandfather, Charles Nimitz, a retired sea captain.
		Young Chester, however, had his sights set on an Army career and while a student at Tivy High School, Kerrville, Texas, he tried for an appointment to West Point.
		At the Academy Nimitz was an excellent student, especially in mathematics and graduated with distinction -- seventh in a class of 114.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq36-4.htm (1036 words)

	Chester William Nimitz - Encyclopedia.com
		Nimitz, 86, and his wife, Joan Labern Nimitz, 89, took their...
		Nimitz and his wife, Joan Labern Nimitz, 89, took their own...
		II and served as a lieutenant on the staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz in the Pacific.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Nimitz-C.html (848 words)

	Governor Stevenson - Letter from Chester Nimitz - Page 1 - Texas State Library
		Admiral Nimitz was determined that the nation and the military should not focus on the mistakes that had led to the debacle at Pearl Harbor, but on the tasks necessary for victory.
		Nimitz moved quickly to restore the public confidence in the Navy with the daring Doolittle raids on the Japanese homeland in April 1942 and with victories in the Coral Sea and at Midway.
		Nimitz coordinated the island-hopping offensive that eventually culminated in the unconditional surrender of the Japanese on September 2, 1945.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /governors/personality/stevenson-nimitz-1.html (250 words)

	Chester Nimitz - MSN Encarta
		Chester William Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, and educated at the United States Naval Academy.
		In December 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, Nimitz was appointed commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, with the rank of four-star admiral.
		Nimitz also helped to develop the strategy of island hopping, in which each island that was captured became the base from which to attack the next target.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569886/Chester_Nimitz.html (252 words)

	Pacific Storm
		Admiral Chester Nimitz, who planned US Navy operations from the central base in Hawaii during most of the Pacific war and who did not directly head military operations - save for the tragic, crucial, and highly mysterious Battle of Midway - is the principal official hero of the American victory over Japan.
		Nimitz did not consider the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941 to be a tragedy.
		Chester W. Nimitz in the name of the USA signs the act of unconditional surrender of Japan on board the battleship Missouri battleship in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
	www.pacificstorm.net /en/articles/nimitz.php (1832 words)

	Biography: Chester W. Nimitz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nimitz is chosen by Roosevelt to suceed to counter-admiral Kimmel at the head of the CINCPAC (Pacific's fleet).
		Nimitz thinks that the submarines are a very powerful tool and so in about 2 years he will disseminate the japanese marchant fleet using submarines.
		Nimitz is promoted to the rank of fleet admiral (5 stars) and he is there to sign the japanese capitulation.
	geocities.com /pentagon/3758/nimitz.htm (98 words)

	Admiral Chester Nimitz
		Chester William Nimitz, son of Chester Bernhard and Anna (Henke) Nimitz, was born in Fredericksburg, Texas.
		Chester Nimitz also never held the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, as he was appointed a full Lieutenant after three years of service as an Ensign.
		Nimitz returned to the United States in the fourth Ranger when that vessel was converted to a school ship, and in January 1909 began instruction in the First Submarine Flotilla.
	www.geocities.com /cruelkevmilitary/nimitz.html (1442 words)

	Chester Nimitz
		Chester Nimitz was the American naval officer in charge of the Pacific fleet in World War II.
		Along with Douglas MacArthur, he was responsible for the implementation of the strategy known as island hopping, which was capturing border territories around Japan to use as bases for more internal attacks.
		Nimitz was also the official representative of the United States at the Japanese surrender in 1945.
	library.thinkquest.org /15511/data/encyclopedia/nimitzchester.htm (87 words)

	Chester Nimitz Summary
		Chester Nimitz was born on Feb. 24, 1885, in Fredricksburg, Tex. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1905, seventh in a class of 114.
		Chester W. Nimitz, son of Chester Bernhard and Anna (Henke) Nimitz, was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, where his house is now a museum.
		While Nimitz was a young 22 year-old ensign in the Philippines in command of the Decatur, a well-worn destroyer that had seen better days, one dark night he and his crew found themselves aground on a mudbank.
	www.bookrags.com /Chester_Nimitz (3162 words)

	Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nimitz served on submarines for most of his early career and exchanged shoreduty with submarine service from time to time, until he became commander of USS Augusta in 1933.
		Nimitz signed the Declaration of Surrender aboard USS Missouri on 2nd September 1945, and became Chief of Naval Operations in December 1945, holding that post for two years.
		Nimitz is buried on the Golden-Gate National Cemetry near San Francisco.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/biographies/chester_nimitz.htm (415 words)

	Admiral Nimitz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was born Feb. 24,1885, in Fredericksburg -- a small German-style town in central Texas.
		Nimitz left the Academy in 1905 and headed to his first assignment aboard USS OHIO, a battleship homeported in San Francisco.
		Although Chester spent many years away from his family, it was his family which proved to be the stabilizing factor for him during World War II.
	blackroseknight.com /military/nimitz.htm (465 words)

	US People--Nimitz, Chester W. (1885-1966)
		Chester William Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, on 24 February 1885.
		In 1909-13, after his return to the United States, Lieutenant Nimitz was assigned to submarine duty, gaining a reputation as an expert in the field of undersea warfare.
		Fleet Admiral Nimitz became Chief of Naval Operations in December 1945.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-n/c-nimitz.htm (1032 words)

	Nimitz, Chester W.
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	www.celebrityaz.com /2063_Nimitz_Chester_W.html (355 words)

	Chester W. Nimitz Biography (Sailor/World War II Figure) — FactMonster.com
		In 1944 Nimitz was promoted to the newly-created rank of fleet admiral, the naval equivalent to the army's General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
		Chester W. Nimitz Biography (Sailor/World War II Figure) - Biography of Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II Raymond Ames Spruance - Spruance, Raymond Ames Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886–1969, American admiral, b.
		Chester W. Nimitz: Admiral of the Hills by Frank A. Driskill and Dede W. Casad
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/chesterwnimitz.html (428 words)

	Military.com Content
		Nimitz graduated seventh out of 114 midshipmen in his Naval Academy Class of 1905, and his Worl War II strategy is widely credited with guiding the Allied victory in the Pacific.
		Nimitz had spent much of his career in and around "pigboats," as they were then known.
		Nimitz’s many assignments included the first Professor of Naval Science and Tactics for the University of California at Berkeley’s ROTC unit.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_nimitz_bkp (394 words)

	Nimitz, The Submariner
		Nimitz stood seventh out of 114 in the class – definitely a “star” man – and his first orders were no different from those of his classmates; he went to the newly-commissioned battleship, USS Ohio (BB-12) and shipped out in her to the Asiatic Fleet.
		Nimitz hoped, like all his contemporaries, to be assigned again to a battleship, which during that era was not just the pride of the Navy, but the capital ship, the embodiment of seapower.
		Nimitz’s specific contributions to the new submarine designs are not documented, but the outcome of this board – generally conservative but with strong endorsements of improved habitability, reliability, and specific research and development priorities – reflect the practicality and innovation that seem to have been one of Nimitz’s trademarks.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_18/nimitz.htm (3420 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Chester Nimitz, Grant Me Courage ~ February 24 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hawaii's Nimitz Highway, the main traffic artery that runs from the airport to Waikiki, was named for the man who helped build the submarine base at Pearl Harbor.
		Nimitz graduated from the Annapolis Naval Academy in 1905, served quietly in the Philippines, then transferred to submarines where he quickly became an expert on those boats.
		At the 1975 commissioning of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, President Gerald Ford said the Admiral was "a keen strategist who never forgot that he was dealing with human beings, on both sides of the conflict.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /022403.htm (297 words)

	USS Nimitz (CVN-68) - en
		Nimitz' homecoming on May 26, 1980 was, at the time, the largest given to any carrier battle group returning to the United States since the end of World War II.
		In November, 1995, Nimitz commenced her deployment to the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf, and to the waters off Taiwan, where once again the presence of carrier forces at sea positively influenced events ashore, calming a volatile standoff between mainland China and Taiwan.
		On September 1, 1997, Nimitz set out on her latest deployment, an around-the-world cruise that would see the great carrier return to her East Coast roots and begin a multi-year overhaul in the Newport News shipyard where she was built.
	www.military.cz /usa/navy/uss/carriers/nimitz/nimitz_en.htm (1142 words)

	Chester W. Nimitz
		After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Chester Nimitz served in a number of navy posts, rising through the ranks until he was appointed rear admiral in 1938.
		Nimitz, Chester William (1885-1966), American naval officer, born in Fredericksburg, Texas, and educated at the United States Naval Academy.
		Nimitz also helped to develop the strategy of island hopping, in which each island that was captured became the base from which to attack the next target.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /navelm/leaders/nimitz.asp (316 words)

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