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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 62008

Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN
(center)

Is sworn in as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation by Rear Admiral Walter B. Woodson, Judge Advocate General of the Navy, at the Navy Department in June 1939.
At left is the outgoing Chief of the Bureau, Rear Admiral James O. Richardson.

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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5 December 2000