In this capacity, he served as Admiral Chester Nimitz's chief advisor on naval aviation policy, fleet logistics, and administration matters.

As Executive Officer of the USS West Virginia ( BB-48 ), he was wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and afterwards was officer in charge of intelligence on Chester W. Nimitz's Pacific Fleet staff.

At one time there was even a group on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, known as the " Shire of Curragh Mor " ( anglicized Irish for " Big Boat "), and the shire's arms played on the Nimitz's ship's badge.

Leyte Gulf is where Nimitz's western thrust across the central Pacific Ocean intersected MacArthur's northern thrust across the western Pacific Ocean.

However, Nimitz and MacArthur initially had opposing plans, with Nimitz's plan centered on an invasion of Formosa, since that could also cut the supply lines to Southeast Asia.

( Historian Snow ( see " Further Reading ") says the gunboat was commanded during World War I by Chester Nimitz, an assertion that is not supported by Nimitz's biographers.

When Admiral Chester Nimitz's island-hopping campaign captured islands close enough to Japan to be within the range of B-29s, XXI Bomber Command commanded Twentieth Air Force units flying from the islands in a much more effective bombing campaign of the Japanese home islands.

Later books dropped hints that Honor may be developing empathic talents of her own even as her life became complicated by the courtship, marriage and pregnancy of Nimitz's mate Samantha in Honor Among Enemies.

Honor's career and the success of the collected works in the honorverse really can't be understood without her association with Nimitz and then, through him, her association to other Treecats — including to all of the Treecat race, as is gradually revealed through stories such as Changer of Worlds where the Treecat community is seen to be endorsing Samantha and Nimitz's decision to migrate with volunteers and their kittens off planet.

All Army forces in the Pacific were placed under MacArthur's command, including those in Nimitz's Pacific Ocean Areas.

However, units in POA remained under Nimitz's operational control, and the first major formation, the Tenth United States Army, did not pass to AFPAC control until 31 July 1945.

For the invasion of Leyte, MacArthur and his naval commander, Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid expected that Barbey would continue in command of the amphibious forces, but Nimitz preferred the commander of the III Amphibious Force, Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, who was senior and in Nimitz's opinion, more experienced.

However the Americans had become aware French Frigate Shoals were a possible IJN rendezvous point, and naval patrols were increased, per Admiral Chester Nimitz's orders.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The SiPo was placed under the direct command of Reinhard Heydrich who was already chief of the Nazi Party's intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).

In 1931 he appointed Reinhard Heydrich chief of the new ' Ic Service ' ( intelligence service ), which was renamed the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD: Security Service ) in 1932.

Some Afghan groups ( including the former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh and opposition leader Dr. Abdullah Abdullah ) believe that Karzai plans to appease the insurgents ' senior leadership at the cost of the democratic constitution, the democratic process and progress in the field of human rights especially women's rights.

Investigators found that a bomb placed in the cargo hold by Chadian rebels backed by Libya was responsible for the explosion ; in 1999 a French court convicted six Libyans, including the former Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, in absentia, of planning and implementing the attack.

* 2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.

Regarding the CIA's refusal to inform the FBI about Mihdhar and Hazmi, author Lawrence Wright suggests the CIA wanted to protect its turf and was concerned about giving sensitive intelligence to FBI Agent John P. O ' Neill, who Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer described as duplicitous.

Officially, his post was that of First Secretary to the British Embassy ; in reality, he served as chief British intelligence representative in Washington.

The sexual abuse and rape charges against Beria were disputed by some of the people close to him, including his wife Nina, his son Sergo, and his colleague, former Soviet foreign intelligence chief Pavel Sudoplatov.

On 1 August 1931 Heydrich began his job as chief of the new ' Ic Service ' ( intelligence service ).

Later in the year, a group of Egyptian soldiers and emirs attempted to assassinate Saladin, but having already known of their intentions, thanks to his intelligence chief Ali bin Safyan, he had the chief conspirator, Naji, Mu ' tamin al-Khilafa — the civilian controller of the Fatimid Palace — arrested, and killed.

The Syrian intelligence chief Hisham Bekhityar was also injured in the same explosion.

The FDN ’ s ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, the main opposition group of those armed organizations referred to as ' Contras ') chief of intelligence, Ricardo Lau, had, according to the former Salvadoran intelligence chief Col. Roberto Santivanez, ‘ received payment of $ 120, 000 ’ for organizing the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador in 1980.

One former US intelligence officer has described this as the " highlight of the job " for the London CIA chief.

Later, Colonel Picquart ( Henry O ' Neill ), the new chief of intelligence, discovers evidence implicating Major Walsin-Esterhazy ( Robert Barrat ) as the spy, but he is ordered by his superiors to remain silent, as this revelation would embarrass them.

During the investigations into the money laundering networks of the Mafia it became clear that former Palermo police chief Bruno Contrada who had moved to the intelligence service SISDE had warned a suspect about his impending arrest so that he could escape in time.

The Israeli chief of operations and prime minister apologized officially, saying they were unaware, due to faulty intelligence, that civilians would be in the house.

Aidid also served in Barre's cabinet and as Somali ambassador to India before finally being appointed intelligence chief.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Beatty was strongly commended by Captain E. H. Bayley, who had been his commander during the siege, and by the commander in chief.

Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

* Charles " Trip " Tucker III ( Connor Trinneer ), chief engineer of the Enterprise, and long-time friend of Captain Archer.

She was placed in the engineering department, which had no clear department head because the original chief engineer was killed during the trip to the Delta Quadrant ; Captain Janeway eventually promoted Torres to chief engineer based on, now Voyager XO, Chakotay's recommendation.

In 2266, McCoy was posted as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk who calls him " Bones ".

" In 1888, Captain Baden-Powell was part of a column searching for the Zulu chief Dinizulu, who was leading the Usutu people in revolt against the British colonists.

* August 12 – King Philip ( Metacomet ), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.

He re-used several elements of his 1870 one-act piece, Our Island Home, which had introduced a pirate " chief ", Captain Bang.

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Kirk is chief of Starfleet operations, and he takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Willard Decker.

In attendance were Captain Clarence Renshaw, one of Groves ' assistants ; Major Hugh J. Casey, the chief of the Construction Division's Design and Engineering Section ; and George Bergstrom, a former president of the American Institute of Architects.

* Jamieson K. Price as Captain Bordon: Tavington's second-in-command of the Green Dragoons and chief intelligence officer.

In November 1830 Te Rauparaha persuaded Captain John Stewart of the brig Elizabeth to carry him and his warriors in secret to Akaroa, where by subterfuge they captured the leading Ngāi Tahu chief, Te Maiharanui, and his wife and daughter.

17N resumed its attacks in November 1983, killing the deputy chief of the U. S. military assistance mission ( JUSSMAG ) Captain George Tsantes in retaliation for Papandreou's decision to renew the base rights agreement.

They were eventually restored to their individual forms under the orders of Captain Janeway, using a procedure devised by the EMH and chief engineer B ' Elanna Torres.

The Areois travelled about, devoting their whole time to feasting, dancing ( the chief dance of the women being the grossly indecent Timorodee mentioned by Captain Cook ), and debauchery, varied by elaborate realistic stage presentments of the lives and loves of gods and legendary heroes.

Yet like all things, Skull's plans fell apart when Skull's chief pawn in the Commission was killed by Skull, right in front of Captain America.

He recruited the female sociopath " The Viper ", a move that alienated his minions and was further rocked when his chief henchman Crossbones kidnapped Captain America's girlfriend Diamondback, resulting in Captain America finding Skull's new lair.

Following the Battle of Washita River in November 1868, Custer was alleged ( by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition ) to have unofficially " married " Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868 – 1869.

Before leaving Fort Snelling, Custer spoke to General Terry's chief engineer, Captain Ludlow, saying he would " cut loose " from Terry the first chance he got.

Charles Clarence Beck, artistic creator and long-time chief artist of comic book superhero Captain Marvel, and his extended family of " Shazam!