Pacific Fleet Command and Maritime Cold War Strategy Development

Pacific Fleet Command and Maritime Cold War Strategy Development

Chester William Nimitz

A Fleet Admiral in the United States Navy. During World War II, he commanded the Pacific War as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, leading the fight against the Imperial Japanese Navy. He also contributed greatly to the development of submarine tactics and underway replenishment techniques.

Timeline

Category
Element
Year Chester William Nimitz
1885
Birth of Chester William Nimitz (Period: February 24, 1885, Location: Fredericksburg, Texas, United States)
1905
Graduation from United States Naval Academy (Chester William Nimitz, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1905, Location: Annapolis, Maryland, United States)
1913
Marriage (Chester William Nimitz, Catherine Vance Freeman, Age: 28 years old, Period: April 9, 1913, Location: Quincy, Massachusetts, United States)
1914
World War I (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Europe and other regions)
1941
World War II (Age: 55 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: No direct combat participation)
Pacific War (Age: 55 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Japanese Archipelago, Pacific Region)
Appointment as Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Chester William Nimitz, Age: 56 years old, Period: December 1941, Location: Hawaii, United States)
Attack on Pearl Harbor (Age: 56 years old, Period: December 7, 1941, Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States)
1942
Battle of Midway (Age: 57 years old, Period: June 1942, Location: Waters Around Midway Island)
1944
Battle of the Philippine Sea (Age: 59 years old, Period: June 1944, Location: Waters Around the Mariana Islands)
Promotion to Fleet Admiral (Age: 59 years old, Period: December 1944, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1945
Appointment as Chief of Naval Operations (Chester William Nimitz, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1945–1947, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
Surrender Ceremony of Japan (Age: 60 years old, Period: September 2, 1945, Location: Aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay)
1950
Support for the Nuclear Submarine Program (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1950s, Location: United States)
1966
Death of Chester William Nimitz (Age: 80 years old, Period: February 20, 1966)

Map

Category
Element
United States World
usa map

Related Links

Group List
Cold War diplomacy Walt Whitman Rostow George Frost Kennan Dean Gooderham Acheson John Foster Dulles Paul Henry Nitze McGeorge Bundy
The Kennedy Family John Fitzgerald Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Harvard University - Intellectual Network Heinz Alfred Kissinger Samuel Phillips Huntington Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. John Kenneth Galbraith Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Liberal politics Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Ewing Stevenson II Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. Edmund Sixtus Muskie Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Military and Security George Catlett Marshall Jr. Dwight David Eisenhower Curtis Emerson LeMay William Childs Westmoreland Chester William Nimitz
Civil Rights Movement James Arthur Baldwin William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. Asa Philip Randolph James Weldon Johnson
International cooperation Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Ralph Johnson Bunche George Herbert Walker Bush Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
Cold War Policy Heinz Alfred Kissinger Lyndon Baines Johnson Robert Strange McNamara David Dean Rusk Walt Whitman Rostow
Media and Intellectuals Norman Kingsley Mailer Avram Noam Chomsky Susan Lee Rosenblatt James Arthur Baldwin Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
Women's movement Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan Gloria Marie Steinem Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
Financial circles David Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Prescott Sheldon Bush William Averell Harriman Robert Abercrombie Lovett

Other Languages

Chester William Nimitz (Español) Chester William Nimitz (Français) Chester William Nimitz (Deutsch) 切斯特·威廉·尼米兹 (中文) チェスター・ウィリアム・ニミッツ (日本語)

Comments

About

Contact Privacy policy

Other Languages

日本語 Español Français Deutsch 中文