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Admiral Nimitz

Post by shipstamps » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:00 pm


Aircraft Carrier. No info – Marshall Is SG35

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Re: Admiral Nimitz

Post by Arturo » Thu Mar 13, 2014 6:53 pm

The stamp depicts Picture of Admiral Nimitz (US Navy) and Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

For Aircraft Carrier see topic: NIMITZ (CVN-68) aircraft carrier (by Mr. Auke Palmhof)
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Chester William Nimitz (24 February 1885 – 20 February 1966) was a Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy. He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.

Fleet Admiral Nimitz culminated his long-range strategy by successful amphibious assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In addition, Nimitz also ordered the United States Army Air Forces to mine the Japanese ports and waterways by air with B-29 Superfortressesin a successful mission called Operation Starvation, which severely interrupted the Japanese logistics.

On 2 September 1945 Nimitz signed for the United States when Japan formally surrendered on board the Missouri in Tokyo Bay. On 5 October 1945, which had been officially designated as "Nimitz Day" in Washington, D.C., Admiral Nimitz was personally presented a Gold Star for the third award of the Distinguished Service Medal by the President of the United States "for exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, from June 1944 to August 1945

Nimitz was the leading U.S. Navy authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939. He served as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1945 until 1947. He was the United States' last surviving Fleet Admiral.

Source: Wikipedia

Marshall Islands, 1984 20 c.
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