Special Episode: Admiral Chester Nimitz

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, airing on the 82nd anniversary of Admiral Nimitz taking command of the Pacific Fleet, Bill and Seth go a bit deeper into the history of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz from his beginnings in Texas to his command of the Pacific Fleet and some other interesting stories in between.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this special episode of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:22.9	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director here at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby.
0:28.8	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Tody,
0:33.2	former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, USS Indianapolis,
0:36.7	Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor,
0:38.8	and many other postings. How are you doing today, Bill? I'm doing wonderful, Seth. How are you?
0:43.3	I'm doing great. I'm doing fantastic. We're going to get into a little more depth on
0:48.3	Admiral, Fleet Admiral, Chester W. Nimitz today. We've got some things. We want to kind of
0:54.1	dive into the man.
0:55.0	He was an intriguing character and easily, easily the most influential character in the Pacific War and seen as how this podcast is about the Pacific War.
1:04.1	We want to talk as much as we can about Admiral Nimitz and little one-offs like this. And this might not be the only one that we do like this, however.
1:12.5	But, well, Bill, Nimitz was, you know, we've already done an episode on Nimitz with Admiral James DeVritus.
1:17.9	And we got into some of the higher level intricacies of his, if his command and his leadership style.
1:25.8	But let's let's talk about the man a little bit. What kind of a guy was he? Where did
1:31.0	he come from? What were his roots before he got into the roll of sync pack? What kind of a guy
1:37.1	wasn't it? Well, the truth is he had a very hard scrabble life as a youth. His dad died before he was
1:41.9	born. So his mom was trying to raise him. His grandfather died before he was born. So his mom was, you know, trying to raise him. His grandfather
1:47.5	was a hotelier who had been a German immigrant who had actually been in the Merchant Marine in
1:52.4	Germany for a while and kind of gave him the kind of the love of the sea. And the hotel that he
2:00.3	built, his grandfather built in Fredericksburg, Texas was built
2:04.2	to mimic the look of a cutter bow of a ship. It's kind of an interesting place to visit.
2:10.3	And people say, well, Nimitz grew up there in Fredericksburg. Actually, he didn't because his mother
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