A brief introduction to the life of U.S. Navy Admiral Nimitz

Mitz, whose full name is Chester William Nimitz, is one of the top ten five-star generals in the United States. So what is a brief biography of Chester William Nimitz?

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Chester William Nimitz was born in 1885. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the Annapolis Naval Academy and graduated out of nostalgia. This destined his life to be inseparable from his status in the navy.

After graduation, Nimitz began an internship on the battleship USS Ohio, and was later awarded the rank of rear admiral and served as captain of the gunboat USS Panay. That year, Nimitz was twenty years old. After commanding the gunboat USS Panay, Nimitz served as captain of the destroyer USS Decatur. At the age of twenty-four, Nimitz was promoted to captain in the Navy and assigned to serve in the submarine force.

In 1913, at the age of 28, Nimitz married Catherine B. Freeman. A month after his marriage, Nimitz went to Germany to study engineering and then served as chief engineer of the oil tanker Momi.

Four years later, Nimitz served as a technical assistant in the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. In 1918, when World War I broke out, Nimitz went to fight in the Mediterranean and Atlantic waters with the submarine force. Beginning in 1920, Nimitz was responsible for the construction of the Pearl Harbor base under the orders of his superiors, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Navy. Two years later, Nimitz went to the Naval War College for further studies, where he was later promoted to captain.

After that, Nimitz served as an instructor of the Naval Officer Reserve Training Corps at the University of California, Berkeley, commander of the 20th Submarine Force at the San Diego Base, captain of the destroyer Betelgeuse, and heavy cruiser USS Augusta. Commander, Assistant Director of the Naval Navigation Bureau, Commander of the 2nd Cruiser Detachment San Diego, Commander of the 1st Battleship Detachment, Commander of Task Force 7, Director of the Naval Maritime Bureau, and Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Mizzi was promoted to rear admiral in 1938, admiral in 1941, and five-star admiral in 1944. Nimitz died of illness in 1966 at the age of 81.

What did the famous U.S. Navy Admiral Nimitz say to comfort American soldiers after the Pearl Harbor attack?

The Pearl Harbor incident was a military incident planned by the Japanese government. It attacked the U.S. Pacific Navy Fleet and sat on the ground of Pearl Harbor. It ended with Japan's victory. After the Pearl Harbor incident, Nimitz gave a speech to the American soldiers, which made the American soldiers unable to recover. So how did Nimitz comfort American soldiers after Pearl Harbor?

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Nimitz said this to American soldiers. He said Japan made three fatal mistakes in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The first fatal mistake Japan made was to time its sneak attack on Sunday morning. On this day, nine out of ten men were all over Hawaii rather than in the cabins, as was American custom, so the United States lost only 3,800 men. Otherwise, the United States would lose not just 3,800 people, but 38,000 people.

The second fatal mistake Japan made was that it only bombed American ships but not American shipyards. Otherwise, the remaining American ships will have nowhere to dock, and those damaged ships will have nowhere to repair.

The third fatal mistake Japan made was that it left oil to the United States. Fuel is the blood necessary for self-defense and revenge in the United States. When Japan launched a sneak attack, American fuel was on a mountain five miles away. If Japan sends planes to drop bombs on that mountain and blow it up, there will be not a drop of fuel left in the United States. In this way, all American ships and aircraft will be reduced to useless scrap metal. "

The reason Japan made these three fatal mistakes is because it did not abandon the United States. It was helping the United States and it still stood with the United States."

U.S. Admiral Introduction to Nimitz's Combined Fleet

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the "Nimitz vs. Combined Fleet" incident occurred. So how did Nimitz fare against the Combined Fleet?

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First, Nimitz learned the lessons of Pearl Harbor. He strengthened the intelligence agency of the Pacific Fleet, allowing the intelligence agency to decipher Japanese naval code books found in destroyed Japanese submarines and thus decipher Japanese naval telegrams.

The deciphering of the message made Nimitz aware of Japan's intention to capture Tulagi Island and then Port Moresby in New Guinea, including the deployment of Japanese troops in the war. Once you understand the opponent's troops, you can arrange your own troops to join the battle accordingly.

Japan participated in the war with assault troops, support and cover troops, and landing troops. The assault troops were 2 aircraft carriers, 3 heavy cruisers, and 6 destroyers, and the support and cover troops were 1 aircraft carrier, 4 heavy cruisers, and 1 destroyer, and the landing force consisted of 1 cruiser and 6 destroyers. Accordingly, Nimitz dispatched a task force consisting of 2 aircraft carriers, 8 cruisers and 11 destroyers to fight the Japanese Combined Fleet, and launched the first aircraft carrier battle in the Coral Sea - the Battle of the Coral Sea.

After extensive intelligence analysis, Nimitz concluded that Midway was a Japanese target and began to counterattack. He transferred the USS Enterprise and the USS Hornet, the only two aircraft carriers in the US military, from the South Pacific to Hawaii. He organized two special task groups and sent B-17 Battlestar bombers, B-25 bombers, dive bombers, fighters, and submarines to Midway. On May 14, the Pacific Fleet entered full combat readiness. On the 25th, the intelligence agency learned the battle plan of the Japanese combined fleet after deciphering the Japanese telegram, so Nimitz stepped up the aerial search and discovered the Japanese fleet on June 4. The war began, which was the Battle of Midway.

On June 5, the battle ended, and the inferior U.S. military suffered heavy losses. However, two Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk by the US military, and Japan announced its unconditional surrender. Nimitz gleefully declared that he had "avenged Pearl Harbor."