Special Episode: Bill shows you where Nimitz died, graves, and Spruance grandchildren

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this special (short) episode, Bill brings you to the house at Treasure Island where Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz died. He visits with Ellen Spruance Holscher and David Bogart, Admiral Spruance's grandchildren, to hear personal recollections of Spruance the man. And he visits the Richmond Kelly Turner, Charles Lockwood, Raymond Spruance, and Chester Nimitz gravesites at Golden Gate National Cemetery, California.

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0:00.0	The So I've already brought you to Admiral Nimitz's office, which used to be my office, decades after it was his office.
0:34.6	Brought you to all over Pearl Harbor, and now're in the Nimitz house near Belinda Island,
0:40.4	near the Treasure Island.
0:42.6	Admiral Nimitz after he retired,
0:44.8	he never really retired, he was a five-star admiral,
0:47.5	which meant he stayed on the active duty roster
0:50.3	throughout his life until he died.
0:53.4	Settled, not retired, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
0:58.0	It was the Kensington area above Berkeley because he was a region at Berkeley University.
1:04.0	He was very happy about that because that's where he established the ROTC unit earlier in his life and he loved the Bay Area.
1:11.6	It wasn't going to go back to Texas for whatever reason.
1:15.6	So he spent his last years here.
1:19.6	He loved that house in Kensington at above the University of California at Berkeley.
1:25.6	But when his health began to fail, the Navy said,
1:28.3	look, in order to take care of you, we need to move you closer to the Navy clinic.
1:33.3	So they convinced them to move here to this house, and we'll show you a video of the house itself.
1:41.3	And this is basically where he lived out
1:44.6	the remaining years of his life until he died.
1:46.8	He died in this house.
1:48.4	There was some controversy about which room he died in.
1:51.3	The bedroom was upstairs.
1:54.1	But his daughter, who was a Dominican nun,
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