Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Chester W. Nimitz

Also searchable as Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chester Nimitz.

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  1. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    33:17A counterfactual change in Pacific command after Pearl HarborQ&A
  2. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:02:28A Pacific-first war creates a stronger coalitionChapter
  3. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:16:43Command tenure shapes who leads a Pacific-first coalitionNotable Point
  4. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    6:23:00Why Nimitz preferred Formosa to retaking the PhilippinesQ&A
  5. What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?
    10:30The ambiguous order to form Task Force 34Chapter
  6. What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?
    35:13Communication failure leaves the strait openNotable Point
  7. What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?
    1:08:03Victory would protect both Halsey and LeeNotable Point
  8. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    12:32Why aerial torpedoes needed a controlled water entryChapter
  9. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    21:28Midway lessons for fighters, torpedo bombers, and screensChapter
  10. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    37:41The Allied advance that set up Leyte GulfChapter
  11. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    55:24Clear orders and verification as Leyte's lasting lessonChapter
  12. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    0:00Richardson's warning before Pearl HarborChapter
  13. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    1:01:24Richardson, King, and an alternate Pacific commandNotable Point
  14. Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!
    1:21:12What if King had commanded the Pacific Fleet before Pearl Harbor?Notable Point
  15. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    35:58American intelligence turns Japan's trap aroundChapter
  16. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:00:25American concentration and Yorktown's 72-hour repairChapter
  17. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:07:29Nimitz concentrates submarine patrols around MidwayNotable Point
  18. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:16:53Command complexity made Japanese radio silence brittleChapter
  19. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:51:33What a Pacific-first American strategy would changeQ&A
  20. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:59:35MacArthur's absence and the Pacific War's logistical timetableQ&A
  21. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    20:59When did the US Navy expect to be ready for war?Q&A
  22. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    36:29How Nimitz guarded against another intelligence failureNotable Point
  23. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    2:17:15Where could Nimitz serve if Kimmel remains in command?Q&A
  24. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:41:14The Laconia Order and the Nuremberg submarine caseQ&A
  25. Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...
    3:10:52Halsey in a rapidly changing Pacific warQ&A
  26. David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience
    4:20:11Could Second World War admirals have known Farragut's officers?Q&A
  27. David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience
    4:26:27James Sands links Farragut's Hartford to NimitzQ&A
  28. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    10:30Kimmel's scouting-force background and carrier-raid plansChapter
  29. Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5
    1:43:11A fleet under construction changes a commander's optionsNotable Point
  30. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    5:40:19How retaining Kimmel might change the Pacific WarQ&A
  31. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    8:41:49Why Nimitz commanded the Pacific from shoreNotable Point
  32. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    9:01Why Guadalcanal drew the carrier forces inChapter
  33. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    42:11Yamamoto and Nimitz manage imperfect resourcesChapter
  34. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    58:23Halsey replaces Ghormley before Santa CruzChapter
  35. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    2:01:25Subclasses trace the Nimitz design’s evolution toward FordNotable Point
  36. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    3:38:25Judging the leading admirals of the twentieth centuryQ&A
  37. Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:45:15Yonai in Japanese memory and Western historiographyNotable Point
  38. Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:50:52Dewey's Admiral of the Navy rank as statusNotable Point
  39. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    5:25Why British ships were valuable near JapanNotable Point
  40. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    18:18Kimmel, Richardson, and the origin of the counterraidsChapter
  41. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    15:47American carrier doctrine breaks toward aggressive raidingChapter
  42. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:48:00Which admiral most shaped World War IIQ&A
  43. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    1:09Pearl Harbor's warning and command failuresChapter
  44. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    51:37Pearl Harbor may have overachieved its purposeNotable Point
  45. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    1:16:19How victory at Pearl Harbor could reshape Pacific commandQ&A
  46. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:08:55Starting books for twentieth-century admiralsQ&A
  47. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    20:44Kimmel, forward basing, and Pearl Harbor readinessNotable Point
  48. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    42:19Guadalcanal, Rennell Island, and a carrier firstChapter
  49. Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)
    57:39Roboute Guilliman through Nimitz, Cunningham and St VincentNotable Point
  50. Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?
    54:54McVay’s court-martial and enduring blameChapter
  51. Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#
    25:04Why Nimitz declined the Pacific command before KimmelNotable Point
  52. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    3:16:11Allied commanders hidden behind the familiar namesQ&A
  53. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    7:57Henderson Field becomes the Allied centre of gravityChapter
  54. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    1:03:21What an American defeat at Midway would changeQ&A
  55. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    2:56:18MacArthur's retirement gives Nimitz the PacificQ&A
  56. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    2:44:57Cunningham or Nimitz as the best admiral of the warQ&A
  57. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    3:57:46Would unified command have changed Leyte Gulf?Q&A
  58. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:04:13Why could Nimitz not simply command Leyte from forward waters?Q&A
  59. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:39:45Swapping Nimitz and CunninghamQ&A
  60. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:03:59Nimitz, MacArthur, and two kinds of wartime politicsNotable Point
  61. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    1:28:56An American deputy and a Manila coalition headquartersQ&A
  62. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...
    36:51A divided American battle force and Japanese readinessChapter
  63. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    2:25:55Why unrestricted submarine warfare complicated the Dönitz caseNotable Point
  64. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:17:32King's Pacific offensive was the least bad optionQ&A