Chester W. Nimitz

Chester W. Nimitz

Chester William Nimitz (; February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. Qualified in submarines during his early years, he later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propulsion from gasoline to diesel, and then later was key in acquiring approval to build the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, whose propulsion system later completely superseded diesel-powered submarines in the US. He also, beginning in 1917, was the Navy's leading developer of underway replenishment techniques, the tool which during the Pacific war would allow the US fleet to operate away from port almost indefinitely. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chester W. Nimitz has received more than 4,333,132 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Chester W. Nimitz is the 145th most popular military personnel (down from 125th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from United States (down from 355th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Military Personnel.

Chester W. Nimitz was a United States Navy admiral during World War II. He was the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet from 1942 until 1945.