Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of fourteen boxes of manuscript material documenting the admiral’s distinguished naval career, with emphasis on the World War II period.Series I, Naval Orders, 1902–1952, consists of his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, assignments to ships and shore duty, promotions, travel orders, leave of absence requests, temporary duty assignments, additional duty assignments, change of duty assignments, requests for instruction, examinations for promotion, commendations, awards, citations, appointments, and a transfer to the retired list.Correspondence, 1941–1948, comprises Series II. This is the largest series in the collection and contains letters both sent and received during the World War II period when Hoover was Commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, Commander Marianas, and briefly Deputy Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.Subseries I contains letters sent and received regarding the administration of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1941–1945, with a focus on the Free French Government in Martinique, the administration of Aruba-Curaçao, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Trinidad, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence. Topics discussed in the correspondence include local defense plans, Army-Navy cooperation, the U-boat menace, routing of convoys, supply problems, shipping of oil and bauxite, relations with the British, Dutch, and French, personnel issues, need...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of fourteen boxes of manuscript material documenting the admiral’s distinguished naval career, with emphasis on the World War II period.Series I, Naval Orders, 1902–1952, consists of his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, assignments to ships and shore duty, promotions, travel orders, leave of absence requests, temporary duty assignments, additional duty assignments, change of duty assignments, requests for instruction, examinations for promotion, commendations, awards, citations, appointments, and a transfer to the retired list.Correspondence, 1941–1948, comprises Series II. This is the largest series in the collection and contains letters both sent and received during the World War II period when Hoover was Commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, Commander Marianas, and briefly Deputy Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.Subseries I contains letters sent and received regarding the administration of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1941–1945, with a focus on the Free French Government in Martinique, the administration of Aruba-Curaçao, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Trinidad, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence. Topics discussed in the correspondence include local defense plans, Army-Navy cooperation, the U-boat menace, routing of convoys, supply problems, shipping of oil and bauxite, relations with the British, Dutch, and French, personnel issues, need...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of fourteen boxes of manuscript material documenting the admiral’s distinguished naval career, with emphasis on the World War II period.Series I, Naval Orders, 1902–1952, consists of his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, assignments to ships and shore duty, promotions, travel orders, leave of absence requests, temporary duty assignments, additional duty assignments, change of duty assignments, requests for instruction, examinations for promotion, commendations, awards, citations, appointments, and a transfer to the retired list.Correspondence, 1941–1948, comprises Series II. This is the largest series in the collection and contains letters both sent and received during the World War II period when Hoover was Commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, Commander Marianas, and briefly Deputy Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.Subseries I contains letters sent and received regarding the administration of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1941–1945, with a focus on the Free French Government in Martinique, the administration of Aruba-Curaçao, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Trinidad, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence. Topics discussed in the correspondence include local defense plans, Army-Navy cooperation, the U-boat menace, routing of convoys, supply problems, shipping of oil and bauxite, relations with the British, Dutch, and French, personnel issues, need...

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8x10 black and white photo of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz.

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Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz speaks about the value of the training he recieved at the War College in preparation for WWII. He also addresses the importance of personnel planning, logisitics, and morale during wartime.

Nimitz speaks for about 20 minutes. He then fields questions and answers for approximately 40 minutes, which covers many topics including competitions between battelships, taking direction from Washington, and the usefulness of war gaming.

Some technical difficulties occur in the recording; they are momentary.

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Classified and unclassified lectures delivered by visiting scholars, flag rank officers, and government officials.

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Lecture given by Lieutenant C. W. Nimitz, U.S.N., Commanding Atlantic Submarine Flotilla.

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Correspondence and memoranda regarding College administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, finances and organization, visitors, lectures, conferences and events.

The majority of this collection is filed using Navy file numbers. For more information about this filing system, please refer to the Navy Filing Manuals and Bureau of Ordnance File Numbers in the External Documents section of this finding aid.

Scope and Contents Running Estimate and Summary maintained by Captain James M. Steele, USN, CINCPAC staff at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, covering the period 7 December 1941 to 31 August 1942.Digitized representation of materials contained in Series I, Subseries A (original copies), of Coll. 505, Papers of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, maintained by the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. The Command Summary, commonly referred to as the “Graybook” contains the CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet) staff’s “running estimate of the situation” and summary of command decisions, as well as key dispatches received or originated by CINCPAC headquarters. The 8 volumes are paginated as follows: Volume 1, 1941 Dec 7-1942 Aug 31 (pages 1 - 861) Volume 2, 1942 Sep 1-1942 Dec 31 (pages 862 – 1262) Volume 3, 1943 Jan 1-1943 Jun 30 (pages 1263 – 1612) Volume 4, 1943 Jul 1-1943 Dec 31 (pages 1613 – 1830) Volume 5, 1944 Jan 1-1944 Dec 31 (pages 1831 – 2485) Volume 6, 1945 Jan 1-1945 Jul 1 (pages 2486 – 3249) Volume 7, 1945 Jul 1-1945 Aug 31 (pages 3250 – 3548) Volume 8, 1941 Dec 30-1942 Apr 30 (Selected dispatches concerning the period and pertaining to the Battle of Midway. Pages are sequentially numbered. This volume contains dispatch copies, many of which were poorly reproduced at the time of compilation resulting in some portions are...