Chester W. Nimitz
Chester Nimitz was born on February 24 1885 in Fredricksburg, Texas. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1901. After graduation he took charge of the USS Panay. He was also court martialed for grounding the USS Decatur. Another of his sea command was in flag rank as Commander Cruiser Division Two and then as Commander Battle Division One until 1939, when he was appointed as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation for four years. In December 1941, however, he was designated as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, where he served throughout the war. On 19 December 1944, he was advanced to the newly created rank of Fleet Admiral, and on 2 September 1945, was the United States signatory to the surrender terms aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He was the man responsible for the US triumph in the Pacific. He died on February 20 1966. Later he had a US Naval ship named after him, the USS Nimitz.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was a military man from birth until death. He was born on January 26, 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from West Point on 1903. He fought in World I, World War II, and the Korean War. In July 1941, MacArthur was recalled to active duty and became commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. A Japanese invasion of the Philippines that same year drove MacArthur’s forces from the country, but in the years that followed, MacArthur launched a number of successful offensive operations against the Japanese military in the region. During this time, he was frequently and openly critical of his superiors’ decision to focus military resources on the war in Europe rather than in the Pacific. In 1945, at the end of the war, President Harry S. Truman appointed MacArthur supreme Allied commander. MacArthur was placed in charge of the formal surrender of Tokyo, and for the next six years, he remained in Japan to command the occupation forces there and to oversee the rebuilding of the country.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was born in 1884. He's original last name was Takano, but he was adopted. Yamamoto was trained at the Japanese Naval Academy and Harvard University. Admiral Yamamoto was commander of the combined fleet at the outbreak of the World War in the Pacific. He was the man responsible for the planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and other major naval operations including the Battle of Midway in which the Japanese lost naval superiority. Despite losing at Midway, he still remained in charge. While on an inspection of the Northern Solomon island, his plane was shot down by the US Army Air corp
Osami Nagano
Osami Nagano was born in 1880. After becoming a naval officer, he established a strong record in administration. Nagano studied in the United States during the "teens", and was Naval Attache there in 1920-23. During the later 1930s, he served as Navy Minister and Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet. From 1941 until February 1944, he was chief of the Navy General Staff. Admiral Nagano was tried as a war criminal following World War II, but died in 1947 before the trial ended.