Word: nimitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President packed six days of desk work into four, gave over one to his role in the homecoming of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz. One thing Harry Truman does not like about his job is its fuss and fanfare. But one ceremonial task the President evidently does enjoy is awarding medals to servicemen and shaking their hands. On "Nimitz Day" he presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to eleven marines and three Navy men. He said to them what he always says on such an occasion: "I would rather have this medal than be President." He shook hands with...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, back in San Francisco, gave Banker Y. C. Woo a pen used at the Jap surrender ceremony; it was a pen the Admiral had borrowed from the banker four years...
Just a shade jealous of all the homecoming celebrations for returning generals, the Navy last week laid plans for a monster show of its own. On Oct. 2, silver-haired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz-who said bluntly last month that sea power won the war against Japan-will appear before the U.S. Congress. With him will come Fleet Admirals King and Leahy, Admirals Spruance, Halsey, Turner and Kinkaid, Marine General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Lieut. Generals Holland M. Smith and Roy S. Geiger-a total of 41 stars. And late in October the Navy will stage a full-dress...
Andrew Jackson Higgins, colorful New Orleans boat builder (PTs and landing craft) who toils and talks at fever heat, returned from a Pacific tour to announce a two-man crusade (with Admiral Nimitz) to get American men into cooler and fewer clothes. "First thing I did after leaving Honolulu," he said, "was to take off my tie, open the top two buttons of my shirt, and chop my pants off above the knee...
Empey bore this routine patiently, so long as the war was on, and even for a few days after the peace. Then one day he got mad. If Admiral Nimitz could list warships in Tokyo Bay, he said, William Empey could list merchant ships in San Francisco Bay. First Empey asked permission of the Office of Censorship, was told the office had been "abolished." Empey tried the War Shipping Administration, got a flat "no." The Guide-printed the list of ships anyway...