Chester W. Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester William Nimitzwas a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet, for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth24 February 1885
CityFredericksburg, TX
CountryUnited States of America
We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.
I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.
We must not again underestimate the Japanese.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.
The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.