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Nimitz had failed to check the harbor's tide tables and tried Batangas' harbor when the water level was low, leaving Decatur stuck until the tide rose again the next morning, and she was pulled free by a small steamer. The destroyer Decatur ran aground on a mud bank in the Philippines on July 7, 1908, while under the command of Ensign Nimitz. Remaining on Asiatic Station in 1907, he successively served on the gunboat Panay, destroyer Decatur, and cruiser Denver. In September 1906, he was transferred to the cruiser Baltimore on January 31, 1907, after the two years at sea as a warrant officer then required by law, he was commissioned as an ensign. Nimitz joined the battleship Ohio at San Francisco, and cruised on her to the Far East. He was appointed to the Naval Academy from Texas's 12th congressional district in 1901, and he graduated with distinction on January 30, 1905, seventh in a class of 114. Nimitz felt that this was his only opportunity for further education and spent extra time studying to earn the appointment. Slayden, told him that he had one appointment available for the United States Naval Academy and that he would award it to the best-qualified candidate. Originally, Nimitz applied to West Point in hopes of becoming an Army officer, but no appointments were available. The best way to get along with either is to learn all you can, then do your best and don't worry – especially about things over which you have no control." His grandfather had become a Texas Ranger in the Texas Mounted Volunteers in 1851 and had then served as captain of the Gillespie Rifles Company in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was significantly influenced by his German-born paternal grandfather, Charles Henry Nimitz, a former seaman in the German Merchant Marine, who taught him, "the sea – like life itself – is a stern taskmaster. In 1890 Anna married William Nimitz (1864-1943), Chester B. His frail, rheumatic father had died six months earlier, on August 14, 1884. Nimitz, a German Texan, was born the son of Anna Josephine (Henke) and Chester Bernhard Nimitz on February 24, 1885, in Fredericksburg, Texas, where his grandfather's hotel is now the Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site. The USS Nimitz supercarrier, the lead ship of her class, is named after him. He was the United States' last surviving officer who served in the rank of fleet admiral. The chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939, Nimitz served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1945 until 1947.
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.
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. Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. 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. Chester William Nimitz ( / ˈ n ɪ m ɪ t s/ February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy.
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