From Tue Oct 21 04:44:10 1997
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 97 13:25 MET DST
>To: mahan@microwrks.com
>Subject: Nimitz CincPac/CNO Speech – Surprise…
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>As I promised a month or so ago, this contains >the speech Admiral Chester Nimitz
>gave when made CNO. The same words were spoken by him when he took office as
>CinCPac.
>
>FOLLOWING STATEMENT MADE BY FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ >ON 15 DECEMBER 1945 IN THE NAVY
>DEPARTEMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C. WHEN TAKING OVER >THE ASSIGNMENT AS CHIEF OF NAVAL
>OPERATIONS:
>
>I have just taken on a great responsibility.
>
>I will do my utmost to meet it.
>
>
>…and the folks from the Admiral Nimitz Museum >actually paid two dollars to get
>this to me via snail mail…
>
>Tim Lanzendörfer | “Lebt der Herr Reichskanzler noch?
>Amateur Naval Historian | Und wenn ja, was gedenkt er dagegen
>Email: BWV_Wiesbaden@t-online.de | zu tun?” – Private letter, 1905
>
> The United States Navy in the Pacific War 1941 – 1945
> http://www.microworks.net/pacific/index.htm
> The ships, the men, the battles

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