Memorials and legacy

USS Nimitz at sea near Victoria, British Columbia.
Nimitz's headstone at Golden Gate National Cemetery.
Besides the honor of a United States
Great Americans series 50¢ postage stamp, the following institutions and locations have been named in honor of Nimitz:
USS Nimitz, the first of her class of ten nuclear-powered supercarriers, which was commissioned in 1975 and remains in service
Nimitz Foundation, established in 1970, which funds the National Museum of the Pacific War and the Admiral Nimitz Museum, Fredericksburg, Texas
The Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880 ) – from Oakland to San Jose, California , in the San Francisco Bay Area
Nimitz Glacier in Antarctica for his service during Operation Highjump as the CNO
Nimitz Boulevard – a major thoroughfare in the Point Loma Neighborhood of San Diego
Camp Nimitz, a recruit camp constructed in 1955 at the Naval Training Center, San Diego
Nimitz Highway – Hawaii Route 92 located in Honolulu, Hawaii near the
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
The Nimitz Library, the main library at the
U.S. Naval Academy , Annapolis , Maryland
Nimitz Drive, in the Admiral Heights neighborhood of Annapolis , Maryland
Callaghan Hall (the Naval and Air Force ROTC building at UC Berkeley) containing the Nimitz Library (was gutted by arson in 1985)
The town of Nimitz in Summers County,
West Virginia
The summit on Guam where Chester Nimitz relocated his Pacific Fleet headquarters, and where the current Commander U.S. Naval Forces Marianas (ComNavMar) resides, is called Nimitz Hill
Nimitz Park, a recreational area located at United States Fleet Activities Sasebo , Japan
The Nimitz Trail in Tilden Park in Berkeley, California
The Main Gate at Pearl Harbor is called Nimitz Gate
Admiral Nimitz Circle – located in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
Chester Nimitz Oriental Garden Waltz performed by Austin Lounge Lizards
Admiral Nimitz Fanfare composed by John Steven Lasher (2014)
Admiral Nimitz March composed by John Steven Lasher (2014)
The Nimitz Building, Raytheon Company site headquarters, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Nimitz Road in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory is named in his honor.
Nimitz Place part of Havemeyer Park located in Old Greenwich, Connecticut was named in his honor along with many other World War II military personnel.
Nimitz Hall is the Officer Candidate School barracks of Naval Station Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. The barracks was dedicated March 15, 2013.
Nimitz-McArthur Building, Headquarters U.S. Pacific Command
Nimitz Statue, designed by Armando Hinojosa of Laredo, is located at the entrance to SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Statue , commissioned by the Naval Order of the United States, is situated near the bow of the USS Missouri memorial on Ford Island, facing the USS Arizona memorial. The statue was dedicated September 2, 2013. [37]
Nimitz Beach Park, Agat, Guam
Nimitz Drive, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Schools
Nimitz High School, (Harris County, Texas)
Nimitz High School , Irving, Texas
Nimitz Junior High School, Odessa , Texas
Chester W. Nimitz Middle School,
Huntington Park, California
Nimitz Middle School , San Antonio ,
Texas
Nimitz Elementary School , Sunnyvale, California
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary School ,
Honolulu, Hawaii
Nimitz Elementary School , Kerrville, Texas
See also
Biography portal
United States Navy portal
World War I portal
World War II portal
Henry Arnold Karo —see hand-written inscription on photo given to Adm. Karo
Admiral of the Navy
References
1. ^ U.S. officers holding five-star rank never retire; they draw full active duty pay for life.Spencer C. Tucker (2011). The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History . ABC-CLIO. pp. 1685 .
ISBN 978-1-85109-961-0 .
2. ^ Potter, E. B. (1976). Nimitz. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. p. 45. ISBN 0-87021-492-6 .
3. ^ Potter, p. 26.
4. ^ Ancestry.com . Retrieved March 17, 2014
5. ^ John Woolley; Gerhard Peters.
"Gerald R. Ford: Remarks at the U.S.S. Nimitz Commissioning Ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia" . The American Presidency Project. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
6. ^ National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database. Ancestry.com Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
7. ^ "Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Biographical Sketch" . The National Museum of the Pacific War. Archived from the original on April 24, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
8. ^ a b c d "USS Nimitz (CVA(N)-68)" .
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
9. ^ Potter, p. 124.
10. ^ Potter, p. 126.
11. ^ Judgement: Dönitz the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School .
12. ^ Wallace, Robert (September 8, 1958), "A Deluge of Honors For An Exasperating Admiral" , LIFE , 45, No. 10: 109, ISSN 0024-3019
13. ^ "Admiral Nimitz Resigns U.N. Position as Plebiscite Administrator for Kashmir" . Toledo Blade. Reuters. September 4, 1953. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
14. ^ Fai, Ghulam Nabi (December 4, 2003). "Kashmir and the United Nations" (PDF): 2–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 10, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
15. ^ Panigrahi, D. N. (2012). Jammu and Kashmir, the Cold War and the West . Routledge. p. 97.
ISBN 978-113-6-51752-5 . Retrieved July 27, 2016.
16. ^ Korbel, Josef (1966) [first published 1954], Danger in Kashmir (second ed.), Princeton University Press, pp. 155–156
17. ^ Navy Department Library.
"Documents relating to Admiral Nimitz's naval career." Retrieved on July 10, 2009.
18. ^ a b Potter. – p. 125.
19. ^ "Catherine Nimitz Lay, 100" . Cape Cod Times . Retrieved 9 June 2017.
20. ^ February 17, 1915 – January 3, 2002
21. ^ Potter. – p. 131.
22. ^ September 13, 1919 – February 19, 2004.
23. ^ Potter. – p. 150.
24. ^ June 17, 1931 – February 27, 2006
25. ^ a b Potter. pp. 158–59.
26. ^ Potter. – p. 165.
27. ^ January 6, 1909 – September 13, 2001.
28. ^ Potter. p. 366.
29. ^ "Fleet Adm. Nimitz dies of stroke" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. February 21, 1966. p. 1.
30. ^ "Private funeral held for Nimitz" .
Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). Associated Press. February 24, 1966. p. 1A.
31. ^ Potter. – p.472.
32. ^ "Nimitz's Funeral Is Held On Coast; Admiral Declined Arlington Burial to Lie With Men" . The New York Times . United Press International. February 25, 1966. Retrieved June 3, 2018. (Subscription required (help)) .
33. ^ Lembke, Daryl E. (February 25, 1966). "Adm. Nimitz Buried in Simple Rites". Los Angeles Times. p. 4.
34. ^ Chester W. Nimitz at Find a Grave
35. ^ Borneman. Page 465.
36. ^ Archival service record of Chester Nimitz, "Awards and dates of rank",
National Personnel Records Center , released 2008
37. ^ Moore, Douglas M. (Autumn 2013). "Dedication of the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Statue". Naval Order of the United States. 24 (11): 1–2, 10–11.
This article incorporates text from the
public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .
Bibliography
Borneman, Walter R. (2012). The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King – The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea (Hardback) |format= requires
|url= (help ). New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-09784-0 .
"Some Thoughts to Live By," Chester W. Nimitz with Andrew Hamilton,
ISBN 0-686-24072-3 , reprinted from Boys' Life Magazine, 1966.
Potter, E. B. Nimitz. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1976.
ISBN 978-0-87021-492-9 .
Potter, E. B., and Chester W. Nimitz. Sea Power . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. ISBN 0-13-796870-1 .
Further reading
Harris, Brayton (2012). Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater . St. Martin's Press.
ISBN 0230107656 .
Hoyt, Edwin Palmer (1970). How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals . Weybright and Talley.
ASIN B0006C5D54 .
Moore, Jeffrey M. (2004). Spies for Nimitz: Joint Military Intelligence in the Pacific War . Naval Institute Press.
ISBN 1591144884 .
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to:
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chester W. Nimitz .
Mark J. Denger. "Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, A Five Star Submariner" .
Californians and the Military. California State Military Museum. Archived from the original on October 13, 2003. Retrieved
December 3, 2003.
"Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz" .
Frequently Asked Questions . Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
National Museum of the Pacific War
USS Nimitz Association
Nimitz-class Navy Ships at Federation of American Scientists
Nimitz State Historic Site in Fredericksburg, Texas
"The Navy‘s Part in the World War," (26 Nov 1945) . A speech by Nimitz from the
Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives .
Texas Navy hosted by The Portal to Texas History . A survey of the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution and the Republic Era. Includes maps, sketches, a list of ships of the Texas Navy, and a chronology. Also includes photographs of 20th century U.S. Navy ships named after Texans or Texas locations. See photos of Chester Nimitz and the Nimitz hotel.
The short film Big Picture: The Admiral Chester Nimitz Story is available for free download at the Internet Archive
Guide to the Chester W. Nimitz Papers, 1941–1966 MS 236 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy
Chester W. Nimitz at Find a Grave
Newspaper clippings about Chester W. Nimitz in the 20th Century Press Archives of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
Military offices
Preceded by
William S. Pye Commander in Chief
United States Pacific Fleet
1941–1945 Succeeded by
Raymond A. Spruance
Preceded by
Ernest J. King Chief of Naval Operations
1945–1947 Succeeded by
Louis E. Denfeld
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
William Hood Simpson Cover of Time Magazine
February 26, 1945 Succeeded by
Ibn Saud of Saudi