Description
Handwritten letter from Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz on July 10, 1964, thanking a member of his family for photographs and tickets to a theatre production of “Kiss Me Kate.”
Written on his personal stationery, previously folded for mailing, measures 8″ x 10.5″. This letter is presumably to his nephew, Bob Groa and wife, Marilyn.
Provenance: RR Auctions, Lot 298, Catalog 276, August, 2003. Includes original invoice and paperwork from the auction house.
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966) was the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during WWII. On September 2, 1945, he was the United States signatory to the surrender terms of Japanese forces, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. After WWII, he served two years as Chief of Naval Operations. He retired from active service in 1947 and moved to California. Admiral Nimitz died in 1966 and was buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.
