Chester Nimitz: Grand Admiral of the Pacific
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“Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.”
Chester W. Nimitz
When it come down to it that is about right. Of course it's a lot harder than that pithy statement, and thus great leadership is rare.
Chester Nimitz about the Marines on Iwo Jima: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue." Outstanding man.
Yeah!
The Marines worked for him!
@@rachaelsdaddontdrink The Marines work for their Country. Semper Fi
It's so sad to see the point flying so far above people's heads. Nice quote.
@A Pacifist Machine Gunner what is it? God, Corps, Country or God, Country, Corps. That is what i always thought the Marines fought for.
Admiral Nimitz even made MacArthur believe he was 'running the show' ...
Fun fact: After his retirement from the Navy, Nimitz confessed to a journalist that he always got seasick on board ships.
I still do after spending 35 years out at sea.
Ironic. Still it proves you don't need to be great sailor to be a great admiral.
Chris James if anything it proves that you can be a great sailor even if you get seasick.
That's why he preferred submarines.
You get used to it after a couple of days out unless you are a pilot.
It always surprised me how these guys could twist A-4, A-7, A-8, F-14, and F18's in 3G inducing dogfights and get nauseous in a sea state 3 on the bridge.
Not just the Aircraft carrier was named to honor him in the U.S. Navy, but the size class of aircraft carriers that are in service are all Nimitz class Carriers.
I said that at the screen. :)
Zach Vetter it restores my faith in humanity to find this comment so quickly 👍
There's one Ford class.
If i'm not mistaken, the USN names all different models of in a similar way.
Ie. the Nimitz-class Carriers, first one would be named Nimitz.
Iowa-class battleships(not sure if it was Iowa, but you get the idea), first one would be named Iowa
etc.
When the US makes a new class of ships those ships go by the name of the first ship in that class. So for example when the US built it's first super carrier the Nimitz, all rest of them are referred to as Nimitz class super carriers! The brand new USS Gerald R. Ford super carrier is the 10th Nimitz class carrier. Same with the US destroyers, they are the Arleigh Burk class of destroyers.
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
--Chester W. Nimitz
The Admiral waxed poetic.
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A quote that would serve our President Trump in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds to destroy him and subjugate America to the whims of the Globalists like Soros.
@@johnwhitehead5457 hows that trump support gone for ya? looooool
@@johnwhitehead5457 where's that idiot with the tan?
Massive missed opportunity to have this sponsored by World of Warships
Also a massive missed opportunity for me to get to this joke first.
@K 2 r/wooosh
Aussie here,
Chester Nimitz saved our butts bigtime.
You Aussies fought like Lions on New Guinea
Thanks!
@@DMS-pq8 they prefer emus. Emus are better than lions
Sure, Nimitz' actions saved many Aussie lives- so thanks. But without ANY Allied help, there's no way the Japanese would ever have conquered Australia. You guys fight better, drink better and have a better sense of honor, humility and humor.
@@Berry01000 that's why the Australians fought so well -- they've faced the emus.
A random note about Admiral Nimitz, during the occupation of Japan, he found the time and had the love of naval history in him, to help ensure the preservation of the Japanese battleship Mikasa, at the time already encased in permanent dry dock, she easily could have been scrapped or destroyed. The Mikasa was the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of Tsushima, when the fledgling world power clashed with and utterly defeated the Imperial Russian Navy. She's also the last of the British built pre dreadnought battleships... and indeed the only British battleship left in the world. Admiral Nimitz is honored aboard the Mikasa, still around nearly two centuries after her birth in England's shipyards, in Yokosuka, beating heart of the American 7th fleet and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, where she continues to serve as a museum ship. A small part of a great man and a legendary warrior's legacy, but an important one none the less.
I think the Japanese see the Mikasa like how the British see the HMS Victory.
Mikasa keel was laid down at the Vickers shipyard Barrow-in-Furness on 24 January 1899.
My grandfather was on the USS Arizona when it was sunk, he survived and served throughout the rest of the war under Nimitz
December 7 must have been absolute Hell. Glad your grandad made it out. Did he talk to you about that day?
Some few years ago I was on a city bus in El Paso and sat across an behind a small wizened Hispanic man wearing a USS Arizona cap. I wanted to shake his Han but was too shy.
Wow what did he have to say about him?
hey so did mine :) its a small world
Chester Nimitz lost a finger.
If he'd lost two more fingers, he would have been 'invalided out' of the USN.
Chester Nimitz went on to become Admiral Nimitz.
Isoroku Yamamoto lost two fingers at the Battle of Tsushima.
If he'd lost one more finger, he would have been 'invalided out' of the IJN.
Isoroku Yamamoto went on to be come Adrmiral Yamamoto.
What's even crazyer is that the ship Yamamoto was on when he lost his fingers was the INJ mikasa by the end by the end of WW2 the ship was I severe disrepair so a group of British businesses men convinced then fleet admiral Nimitz to run a promotional campaign to raise funds to preserve her. Later when the USS Nimitz was stationed in Japan sailors from that ship helped repaint the mikasa. To and strangeness to the story the reason why the British business men wanted to preserve the mikasa was because she was and is the last British built pre-dreadnought battle ship.
@@jasonirwin4631 Mikasa sukasa. (sorry, I couldn't resist.)
A clash of Poseidons
I've studied Nimitz lot over the years. Actually went to his hometown of Fredericksburg Texas many times and have gone through the museum there a number of times. It is an amazing museum. Can spend an entire day there. I've studied the man and i can't seem to find a fault in him. Nimitz is one of those guys that never forgot who he was and where he came from. One of the more interesting antidotes from Nimitz life was he would go for walks on the beach in Hawaii in his civilian PT clothes. One day he encountered just a common 17 or 18 year old sailor and they walked/ran together. The sailor thought he was just an old civilian dude. He asked the sailor what ship he served on and if he liked his chiefs and officers. His ship wasn't some interesting ship of war. Just come common and uninteresting support vessel. The young sailor went on a diatribe complaining about everything and how much he hates life onboard the ship and badly their treated by the chiefs and officers. Nimitz asked if be had tried to talk to anyone to voice his complaints, and the young sailor told him that it was pointless because nobody cares what we think or how we're treated. It was at that point Nimitz introduced himself as THE CINCPAC and said, "and I certainly care about how my sailors are treated." Nimitz actually personally visited that sailor's ship and had a word with the ship's CO. He really cared.
Know you wrote your comment a while ago, but it really amused me (I was thinking that after Nimitz introduced himself, that poor sailor probably made the loudest “gulp” in history :)
Nimitz was so low key that when as a young Lit his ship ran aground on a sandbar, he calmly put out a chip on the deck and waited until the tide rose and he could back off. He was so little of a fire eater that His boss wondered if he was aggressive enough to go on the offensive. Then he pulled off Midway with an audacity that befitted a Nelson. Never see him smiling, though, because he is said to have bad teeth. Of his subordinates Spruance was a lot like him in many ways. Which is why.I guess, he put him in command of Midway operation .
If anyone is ever in Fredericksburg I highly recommend visiting the Chester Nimitz Museum. Its a WW2 history Museum focused on the pacific war and its incredible!
That is good advice. I spent 2 full days going thru that museum, which was still not enough time.
There are two museums. One is the Nimitz museum, and one is the Museum of the Pacific War. You can, however, gain entry to both with a ticket to either.
Unfortunately when I was down there a few months ago it was closed for repairs
Second that! It takes hours to do it properly. Fredericksburg has become a resort town. I can remember it as a small hill town settled by German Immigrants.
Judy S. So true. I live in Kerrville, and Texas monthly put out a good article about that. All the “rich” people from out of state and country making it more suitable to them.😕
The USS ENTERPRISE pictured at about the 5 minute mark was the much newer nuclear aircraft carrier of the name, not the WWII era ship.
11:18 Germany's ability to attach Hawaii? That is a slight error.
@@chuck62891 he said Japanese
I noticed that and immediately paused the video to see how many comments there were about it lol
@@chuck62891 He said Japanese
As long as it’s not the Ford class one that’s planned to be built.
Chester Nimitz is a personal hero of mine.
Same here ^.^
From the little I know of Nimitz, he seems to have been quite a modest man- rather like Neil Armstrong. I think Nimitz deserves more recognition for his WWII actions, McArthur seems to have been a self publicist who stole some of the limelight that Nimitz deserved.
Chester Nimitz is THE hero to me.
hipster alert
My father worked on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
My cat's name is Nimitz. We watched this together. He was on my lap for most of it. He knows who he's named after!
For reference, the 75,000 US casualties at Okinawa were about 1/6 of all US casualties during the war.
We still get flack from the anti-American left about the use of the bomb. Better them than our guys. Millions of people are alive today, including descendants, because of the A-bombs.
Disregard Allied deaths for a moment. The atomic bombs killed a quarter of a million Japanese, either directly or indirectly. Over 28 million potential Japanese guerrillas were preparing to resist the invasion. A great many of those would die during the invasion and occupation, not counting those the guerrillas would kill in reprisal against collaborators or those who just refused to join them. As an alternative, the US could have starved Japan into submission by destroying farms and even more infrastructure. Considering the fanaticism seen on Okinawa, it would have taken many millions of deaths, from combat or starvation, for the Tojo or the Emperor to even consider a surrender. Also, in the months required to bring about Surrender, Japanese forces in China and Southeast Asia would continue to fight the Allies and commit atrocities on local civilians and Allied POWs. So, choose your poison: Invasion, Starvation and other Atrocities, or A-Bomb. I can guess Judy S. choice, how would you choose?
@@JRobbySh In regards to Truman's decision about dropping the bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, I for one think the deaths of both the Japanese and Americans would have been horrendous if we had invaded Japan in operation Downfall. PS I'm on the left and I love America and will support her when she's doing the right thing and seek to correct her when she is making mistakes.
@@johnaustin704 i remember my daughter coming home from school the first week in 2005 upset because her history teacher was calling America the only true terrorist country since we are the only ones that have dropped a nuclear bomb in combat. The next day I was up there and convinced the principal to allow me 10 minutes to give a better account of the use of the atomic bombs. I explained how the japanese people were being trained and brainwashed to fear Americans. I also referred to the massive losses in Okinawa and the concern of the estimated 1 to 5 million casualties Americans would have and the roughly 15 to 30 million estimated for the Japanese. While it did cause more issues than we knew at the time of the use, overall it saved not only American lives, but the lives of millions of Japanese. I had resources printed to show legitimate sources, not Wikipedia. I then turned to the teacher and asked if his father or grandfather was in WWII. He said his grandfather was. It turned out that his grandfather was in Australia where they were training divisions of troops for the invasion. So my grandfather was too. So I told him to thank Truman for his being here. Had the Japanese invasion happened, it ia possible that the baby boomer generation didn't happen and that millions of Americans possibly would not exist today because our grandfathers had been either severely wounded or killed taking japan. If they never got to have their children, then we wouldn't be here. I did not make it political. I kept it factual with a few personal notes that I had learned from family. The teacher apologized as he had never had it put to him that way. I personally thought if that was true, then that is sad. I learned that in junior high.
@@vanringo Thank you for using data and logic to convince the teacher. We on the left can be somewhat defensive and irrational too, so I'm glad the teacher was more open minded than some.
On a personal note, my father was in the Navy in WWII as an enlisted man, so he might have been a victim of a kamikaze attack on the ship he was in if Operation Downfall had come off.
Dad got out of the Navy after WWII, but served in Air Force from 1950 until he had to retire in 1976 because of his age, having served his country for 30 years. I grew up as a service brat, so I have different perspective on service people than I would have had if Dad hadn't had the career he had.
Nimitz was a genius on so many levels. He recognized his limitations regarding tactics and so surrounded himself with the likes of Bill Halsey, Marc Mitscher, Ray Spruance, and Richmond K. Turner. The first three were brilliant fleet tacticians and Turner, who nearly lost his professional head after Pearl Harbor, was resurrected by his friend to become the architect of all Pacific amphibious operations...and there were many others on his staff. Nimitz excelled at complex strategic manuvers and for a generally conservative minded fellow he had no fear of taking a calculated gamble. He also was blessed with being lucky and luck can often win a battle when one has the courage of his convictionsm which Nimitz possessed in spades. He was always one or two steps ahead of the Japanese. Perhaps the most brilliant naval mind in history, it's damned hard to citicize Nimitz on any level. He deserves every accolade the country can give and more. A lovely video!
It was luck and persistence that won the Battle of Midway. The Army and Navy threw everything they could to take down the fleet. It was like Rocky Marciano taking down not the aging Joe Louis but the man in his supreme . We just kept flailing away until we score some lucky hits that turned the course of the battle. Even at the end we might have lost if the last carrier had decided to sail west to join the main Japanese battle fleet, If he had done that we would have been hard pressed to resist that combined force.
PS. About the men of the American task force. we can use the words that Churchill applied to the RAF: never have so many owed so much to so few. Imagine that they had lost. We would not have been back in the war until 1944.
Nimitz gets entirely too much credit for everything. Yes, he was a great administrator, but the majority of the strategic decisions in the Pacific were made by Admiral King and/or his chief of staff Savvy Cooke, subject to approval by the Combined Staff. Guadalcanal and the Central Pacific operations were all King initiatives. Okinawa was Spruance's idea. It was King that sent Kelly Turner to the Pacific to run the Guadalcanal amphibious operation (Turner was basically run out of Washington because he couldn't get along with the Army). The bit about Halsey being a brilliant strategist is another howler. He wasn't even a particularly good tactician.
@@JRobbyShOne of our carriers was hardly in the fight. And we still held Midway. The Japs still had some light carriers. but I think they were really in shock. Except for one of their submarines, no surface ship gave much of an account and they were wondering what to do whenever they could get the northern force combined. One probably was that Yamamoto was out of position. Nimitz was smart enough to stay a Pearl where he could talk to everyone and co-ordinate events with a staff that wasn’t worried about getting bombed.
Loses finger
“tis but a scratch”
That's why you don't wear jewelry if you work around machinery.
I grew up on a farm, lot's of machinery. You never wear anything that can get caught or won't break free easily.
@@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff the ring isn't what caused him to get his hand caught in the gears. It is what saved him from losing his whole hand instead of just the ring finger
I have multiple family members who attended the Naval Academy and there are lots of stories of people's fingers being saved from wearing either their class ring or their combat ring.
As a 20 year Naval Flight Officer I want to thank you for this video. Great job depicting the life of a great man.
there's a large hill on Guam named after him
A mini Biographics/Geographics crossover! Woot!
Every navy base has something named after him.
Your moms named after a large hill
There's a freeway named for him in Oakland/Alameda.
@@garymartin9777 In Hawaii part of the interstate highway (H1 Route 92) is named after him too.
I was looking for more biographics on the PERSON "Chester Nimitz". What we recieved was a quick history of the Navy battle of the Pacific.
Preach my brotha PREACH!!!
I agree. This one was not very informative on the subject, at all.
To be fair, a lot of the way it went was his brainchild.
Whistler should consider doing a video on Edwin Layton, the intelligence officer that helped Nimitz win the battle of Midway by cracking Japanese secret code and intercepting radio signals, and consequently take control of the Pacific
Joseph Roachfort
Oh yes. Roachfort
@@mukundaneshepherdcrystal6544 "Thin.... Damn near invisible." The best Nimitz line in the film Midway...
Love this bio! My uncle was under his command, I grew up in Texas right next door to Fredericksburg, went to Nimitz Elementary. He's beloved in our community still.
P.S. it's FRED-ericksburg, not FREED-ericksburg
Or as Marty Feldman would have called it, FRODE-ericksburg.
Kerrville?
Literally watched the one about General MacArthur last night and told myself that it would be cool to see one about Admiral Nimitz and BAM there it is!
Welcome to the Matrix, Mister A Stalk of Broccoli. We missed you.
I love that one of the Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific was called the Hiryu.
In Glasgow, that's an aggressive way to get someone's attention - "Here you!"
A bit of information: they are a total of 9 schools in honor of his name throughout the U.S.
(One of them i graduated from)
Only 9. We need to change that!
I attended Nimitz Elementary just outside Hickam AFB HI.
I attended Nimitz Junior High School in San Antonio, Texas.
I hope some low life doesn't think he is poleter in correct and try to remove his name from history
I wonder if Antifa is aware?
This video on Admiral Nimitz was one of the best video autobiographies I have ever seen. You could have gone into long and boring detail, or just glossed over his highlights of the war. It was engaging and and warm, with just the right amount of his leadership thrown in on top. Great video.
Salute to Grand Admiral Chester Nimitz from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thanks for this video!
My hometown in Washington (state) was the home port for the USS Nimitz from 1987 to 2001, and I had friends who served on her and in her carrier group. It was fantastic to learn more about the man for whom the ship was named.
Did anyone else laugh out loud when he showed the Lexington, Saratoga and Enterprise... the wrong enterprise! Might as well shown the Star Trek Enterprise! 🤦♂️😂
But which one? I mean, I personally lean towards the NCC-1701D, but...
@@mattw.6726 NCC-1701 the original
Been waiting ages for this one: Gustav Mannerhiem! The Swedish-Finnish general who spat in the face of the soviets during the Winter War.
Absolutely. He's fascinating, complex character who ensured Finland's independence.
I wanna see that one.
He's a great giant of a man! Awesome history. Once had a finish girl as my apprentice carpenter she was 16. On arrival I asked her to name me a famous finlander, she smiled and promptly said "Gustav Mannerheim! I replied... Great man you've every reason to be proud of him!
Absolutely! He is often overlooked.
I hope they do a solid video of him. Swedish nobility with German ancestry having served in the Russian army and deciding to stand up for Finland ? That's a bio story you can't make up. His Birthday is coming up why not do a video of him. I will never forget how Hitler who hated smokers smoking in front of him in his army literally had to deal with him constantly smoking cigars in front of him 😆 , he's the real deal.
Thank you for this. I've been looking forward to a Nimitz bio ever since I found your channels. I'm a sucker for naval commanders, looking forward to more in the future.
The first photo of the Enterprise shown was that of CVN-65. Not the WW2 carrier CV-6. Some mispronunciations of names and places. But given the scope of the Pacific war and focus on Nimitz, it was educational.
Nimitz would have loved to have that Enterprise
I don’t mean to be “that guy”, but the USS Enterprise you showed was the newer Nuclear Powered Carrier from the 60’s. The Enterprise that served in WWII was a Yorktown-class with the number CV-6, compared to the one you showed’s CVN-65. Also the USS Yorktown you showed was the later Essex-class, named in honor of the Yorktown than sank at Midway.
You love being "that guy!"
Also if you want you can sleep on the Essex class Yorktown. It is docked in Charleston.
Please, be "that guy". Simon's fact checkers often don't check their facts very well.
A lot of their scripts are stolen word for word from Google and their actual knowledge of the subject matter is zilch.
Be "that guy," so I don't have to be.
As long as you aren't a jerk about about it (and you definitely weren't), corrective comments like yours are the *only* decent reason to read *any* CZcams comments section. And as I have some personal experience with the USS Constellation (CVA-64) which was commissioned 15 years after WWII, I was looking at that photo of the Enterprise with an eye raised as soon as I saw it.
Woody Harrelson who acted as Chester Nimitz in the 2019 movie Midway actually has a close semblance to the real life Grand Admiral. It's a great WW2 movie
I actually saw that film last night!
@@liamweaver2944 oh! That's quite interesting
Way better movie that the one with Charles Heston and Burgess Meredith.
Harrrelson was good fact most of the acting was but that film paled in terms of authenticity to the one made in 1976. The new version had some good background per Yamamoto.
I have to say I didn’t care for it. The movie felt rushed and incomplete, and didn’t give the battle on the Yorktown any real time. Instead of calling the movie “Midway” they should have called it “Dive Bomber Faces”
I served aboard CVN-68 Nimitz twice. My home for over a year of total time. This vid made my eyes tear up. Brought back some bootcamp and service memories.
Well done. One of the best bios of Nimitz I've seen or read. If you're ever in Fredericksburg, TX, it's worth visiting the Pacific War Museum. Had the privilege of touring it with my father-in-law, who was a Marine in the Pacific during WWII. We developed a respectful entourage as we moved through the museum as people listened to his stories. It was the first time my wife had ever heard him speak at any length about his experiences. He was part of a heavy weapons squad (Bazooka, flame thrower, squad machine gun), so of course he saw some of the heaviest fighting. He was ok until we got to the display of the Browning (I think that's what it was) and he broke down. His best friend was killed by a sniper in front of him. During the war, the military let friends join together to encourage recruitment and unfortunately he lost several. He was wounded twice and set back to Hawaii for recovery before rejoining his unit.
Please do one on John Paul Jones father of the US Navy
this bio devolved into a lot of re-tread of the specifics of the pacific war whereas I really was interested in the personality and life of the subject, who is very interesting
you forgot to tell one important fact, well one important and one fun fact. Important fact is that during Nuremberg trial with grand admiral Donitz, Nimitz supported Donitz, resulting in "just" ten years of prison for Donitz. By the way Nimitz spoke german fluently. Fun fact is, that Nimitz helped to raise funds to restore japanese battleship Mikasa.
It goes a lot deeper than that.
The Mikasa was the IJN's flagship at the Battle of the the Tsushima Straits, under the command of Admiral Togo. The Japanese shocked the world by crushing the Imperial Russian fleet at this battle, effectively ending the Ruso-Japanese war.
During his time at the Naval Academy, Nimitz was among a group of Midshipman who were sent on a trip to Japan. While there, Nimitz not only met Admiral Togo, bit joined the midshipman joined the admiral for dinner with the Emperor. Nimitz would site Togo as one of his personal heroes for the rest of his life.
After the war, the Mikasa, which had been decommissioned for years already, had here guns and stacks stripped per the terms of the Japanese surrender. When Nimitz (who was now retired) heard of this, he jot only raised funds for her restoration, but used his influence and connections in Washington to have an exception made for the Mikasa. He also wrote a letter to the Tokyo Times to drum up support in Japan.
Today, the Mikasa remains a museum ship in Yokosuka, Japan. She's one of three "World Herritage ships", the other two being the USS Constitution and the HMS Victory.
@@hikaru248x funny thing is that 2 of the 3 world heritage ships(mikasa/victory) where British built.
Lucky me, as a young Bosun's Mate my ship made a port call to Kure, Japan in1992. Saw a War museum with models of the Yamato, and Admiral Togo's house.
@@hikaru248x Yep... and a few years back (maybe several, now) sailors serving on the Nimitz helped repaint the Mikasa when it needed some periodic sprucing up. I also went on board Mikasa while serving at Yokosuka. Two of the museum displays are nicely scaled models of the USS Constitution and HMS Victory, along with explanations of the close relationships of all three navies: British navy is parent, and the Japanese and U.S. navies being siblings (the quarrels are over).
Is there any video where he speaks german?
Mr. Whistler, Your eloquent speech and not only the choosing but implementation of the words you use to describe this Great Admiral are truly a work of art. I am a Veteran of the United States Navy and proudly served on the USS NASSAU LHA 4. 99% of the Admiral's you mentioned were required knowledge in Boot camp in the 1980's in San Diego. Thank you Sooooooo much for not only this video but all the others as well.
My oldest brother was in the Navy, and took part in the first aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz. I’ll forever be proud of him.
I am a plank owner of CVN 68
Any British person: pronounces "Maryland."
Me, an intellectual: "Where the hell did that 'Y' come from?!?"
My father in law was on a destroyer (DD757) under Nimitz's command during this time. These were great men.
Great to watch/learn some history during these tough days. Thank you for this!!!
I recommend reading "The Admirals" by Walter Borneman if you want to know more about Nimitz along with the other 5 star admirals. Very very good read.
A very good read and a very hard book to come by these days for me. Miss my copy at home and I can’t for the love of Nimitz find a copy to buy in Japan.
Thank you for covering an important U.S. Navy Sailor.
Being a Navy veteran and a Texan this one hit home. Thank you.
Crystal clear bio and historic framework. Thanks Simon, you never disapoint.
Nimitz wished he had that Enterprise you showed at 5 min
He "almost" had CVN-68, if that old movie was correct.
steve
If it hadn't been for his class ring saving the rest of his hand and therefore his career, who knows who would've been put in his place and the choices such commander would've made. We might be living in a totally different world because of that.
interestingly, admiral Yamamoto also lost 2 fingers early in his career during the Russian Japanese war, injuries just short of being medically discharged from the navy
@@JayJay-ex6yo Anyone who works with machinery is in danger of losing a digit or two.
That's a brilliant Biographics video, Simon. Well presented!
This is one of my favorite videos you have put out. As a former Navy member myself, I have a huge interest in studying World War II, most notably the Pacific War. I am also from Texas and am proud to call Admiral Nimitz a Texan.
Salute to Grand Admiral Chester Nimitz from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
If interested in Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King, I suggest the book "The Admirals," by Walter Borneman.
The guy's name was Husband? "I would like you to meet my husband, Husband."
I know he's your husband. What's his name?
@@pyromania1018 husband
@@raghul0078 I know that's who he is. What's his name?
Yeah, and who's on first?🤔😏😏
I have a friend whose last name is Darling. Imagine the endless fun of, "Husband Darling?"
In Fredricksburg, Texas near our ranch, is the Admiral Nimitz Museum, set right on the wide main street (built wide enough in the 1800s to turn a full mule team).
Fredricksburg is a German town and I've been to the old Lutheran church when the sermon was still in German. Now it's a huge tourist town, with beer gardens ("authentic"!) Vineyards, wine tasting rooms and antique shops. Only 20 years ago it was still very quiet and had only a volunteer fire dept.
Your programs are incredible. Thank you
I suggest that one of the next episodes should be about Admiral Yi.
I really don't want to see China invade Taiwan. I hope we have smart war fighters that make the correct calls to always keep China saying, "today is not the day" and if not support Taiwan to repel the invaders.
Well, you're not welcome in China anymore. You would do well to stay out of China. Those commie bastards check out everyone's comments on public sites like these to see whether it's anti-Chinese. And if they see one and you visit China, they will throw you in jail.
@@thewolfbloodwarrior8788 I would have to say that means you aren't welcome their either. Sorry Bro.
@@vanringo Never planned to go to China. I don't ever want to go to some communist shithole place. If one day the CCP collapsed, just like the USSR did, then I would probably go.
Was waiting for this one, thank you!
I really enjoyed this Video. Thanks for the research & time you and your Staff provide to make these as accurate as possible.
Hmmmm... Wrong Enterprise. Or maybe they found that wormhole as in 'the final countdown' 😁
Also.... Battleship Yamamoto?!
Everybody makes that mistake. I'm 55, and people were calling it that when I was a kid. I think because it's only one syllable difference, and Yamamoto was more famous as a person, than Yamato the ship at the time, some people just have a slight disconnect with the name because of that. Perfect example of something similar is when people refer to actor Willem Defoe as "William" Defoe. It's like an irritating mental version of spell check.
@@richardbidinger2577 you probably know this but since japan couldnt out manufacture us they decided to build larger ships. The battleship Yamato was the largest battleship in the world at the time of her commission.
@@TheStackeddeck77 Not just the time of her commissioning, but EVER!
Fun fact, the USS Missouri was chosen because Truman was from Missouri
Don't forget to add the ship's sponsor was his daughter, Margaret Truman (Daniel)... Mighty Mo got the glory...
I've been subscribed for a while but was wondering why I wasn't getting notifications about your uploads here! Glad I hit that bell icon! These videos are my guilty pleasure.
Oh hellyeah. Great video today Simon! Thank you sir
CV USS Enterprise kinda deservs it's own biographics ^^. In fact there are alot of ships that could get that treatment.
Agreed. Especially the Enterprise
Yes yes and yes
that would be more for his mega projects channel
I remember when the Navy sold the Enterprise (CV-6) for scrap. There was a push to save her but It didn't happen. I was just 8 years old but I knew the story of that ship and I was sad that she couldn't be saved.
Let history never forget the name Enterprise!
When you have a class of the most expensive and powerful warships named after you.
Your biographies of great military leaders like Nimitz are concise and informative. You capture not only the great victories they won but the risks they took and the replacements sometimes required of friends like VADM Robert Ghormley who didn’t have the initiative needed for his position at the time. As we navy guys like to say in response to a job well done ‘BZ’. The only correction I noted was the photo of the “Big E” shown at 5:11 was the CVN 65. Not the CV 6.
Wonderful video. Great overview of the Pacific war. Fitting tribute to a real leader.
Can you do an episode about one of the most underrated admirals of all time. Michiel de Ruyter. I would place him 2nd after that crazy korean admiral
Yes please!
How can u NOT include one of the most fascinating milestones in Nimitz’s distinguished career? He was court-martialed in 1908 for neglect of duty. A destroyer under his command ran aground. A great life lesson.
Absolutely loved this! Thank you.
Sir... that was brilliant... thank you for this video. I am ex Navy and love to hear about our history... and Admiral Nimitz was something special...
Horatio Nelson video pls ❤️
"He leaned across the table, looked me straight in the eye, and said, 'Aubrey....may I trouble you for the salt?'" ☺
Actually, the Pacific Ocean battlefield was more like "millions of square miles of ocean"! (The entire ocean is some 63-plus million square miles.)
I am proud and glad you did one for Admiral Nimitz. I have looked recently for a good talk or documentary on him and this was good. you can find dozens on Mac Arthur, Patton. I would like a good one for Jimmy Doolittle. That guy was amazing. MIT engineer, racer pioneer, commander of the European bomber fleet to close the war and Oh, yeah, the Japanese raid that bears his name.
excellent summary of the War in the Pacific!!! perfect speaker!!!
The 880 between Oakland and San Jose is also named the Nimitz Freeway.
Don't forget the 580 is named MacArthur Freeway in Oakland!🇺🇸😀👍
What is it with great naval commanders of ww2 and having lost fingers? Iirc, Yamamoto lost his index and middle fingers on one of his hands during the Battle of Tsushima
Another great video Sir. Thank you.
Great work, Simon!!!
i have his autograph,.. well signature on an accommodation from WW2. my step great grandfather was a submariner during the war.
Bravo.
Battleship Yamamoto? Aircraft carrier enterprise from the cold war period? What the hell are you guys smoking?
@11:16 Did you say "Germanese"?
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Great attention to detail Simon... Excellent!
Fantastic, thank you, team Biographics!
Horatio nelson might be good as well
As well as admiral yi.
Sorry if they exist already and I missed them.
Also Carl panzram
Thanks for what you guys do, during these troubling times.
If you want a good video on admiral Yi go check out "extra credits" they have a playlist about admiral Yi and it is really really well researched and very entertaining.
A short history on the attack of Pearl Harbor:
"We destroyed a couple of their boats. They dropped the SUN on us TWICE!"
Technically, we didn't. The Fat Man and Little Boy bombs were both fission devices splitting apart atoms of Plutonium-239 and Uranium-235 respectively, while the sun uses nuclear fusion to fuse hydrogen atoms into helium, releasing tremendous energy in the process. It wasn't until the 1950's that we had functioning fusion weapons (also known as hydrogen bombs or h-bombs). Check out "Ivy Mike" and especially "Castle Bravo" on Wikipedia. This bit of trivia was brought to you by my tendency towards pedantry.
@@mattw.6726 I would say you are too pedantic so I couldn't bring myself to read your previous comment.
Went through Fredericksburg on new years eve one time. The whole place was lit up with holiday lights. It was impressive. This carrier vet approves of this video.
Thank you got getting the facts correct on the battle of the coral sea, often times its misreported.
,The problem is...I WANT THAT FOURTH CARRIER' (MIDWAY 1976)
He was definitely a badass and deserves all the respect
Henry Fonda playa dcim in a movie, I forget which, but they say that Fonda got him right. He was just look that, truly laid back, the most unpretentious flag officer in the US armed services. But he knew his own worth. Humble in the true sense.
Oh God! I've looked out for a video about the battle of Midway and Nimitz is right in the middle of it. Thanks Biographics
Absolutely love these videos. Do you think you'd ever do a biographic on Marquis De Sade? He's a totally morbid man but definitely an interesting one!
"Where is Taffy 34?" It would be easy for me to criticise Halsey from the comfort of my easy chair. I believe that other great admirals also would have gone after the bird in the hand.
I was just watching the video you did on J.R.R. Tolkien🙌
It’s been years but I have been to the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg many times. Though a smaller museum it is well worth the trip. I enjoyed each visit. Plus the town of Fredericksburg is nice to visit with terrific restaurants serving authentic German food. If you’re ever in the vicinity, like in San Antonio, making the one hour drive north to the picturesque town is highly recommended.
Nimitz made bricks without straw, and Battled without Battleships. Legendary.
when will you do a bio for Chesty Puller?
Simon thinks that's the name of a porn star. I guess he's not far off...just that it was the Japanese Army in the Pacific getting f***ed.
Can you do Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya?
Amazing story. I didn't know. What a great strategist!