Chester W. Nimitz

Birth : 1885-12-24, Fredericksburg, Texas, U.S.

Death : 1966-02-20

History

Chester William Nimitz (24 février 1885, Fredericksburg, Texas – 20 février 1966) était un amiral américain. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il fut commandant en chef des forces des États-Unis dans le Pacifique. Il fut commandant des flottes de sous-marins américains et fut chef du bureau de la navigation en 1939.

Profile

Movies

Hellcats of the Navy

Himself (in prologue) (uncredited)

Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.

Appointment in Tokyo

Himself (archive footage)

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner Bros. for the War Activities Committee shortly after the surrender of Japan. Follow General Douglas MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945