Captain Michael Lilly, USN (Ret.), shares some of his family’s memories of the Nimitz family and their time in Hawaii as part of the USS Missouri Memorial Association 68th anniversary celebration commemorating The End of World War II, Monday, Sept. 2, at

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Captain Michael Lilly, USN (Ret.), shares some of his family’s memories of the Nimitz family and their time in Hawaii as part of the USS Missouri Memorial Association 68th anniversary celebration commemorating The End of World War II, Monday, Sept. 2, at the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hi. The ceremony, was followed by the unveiling and dedication of a statue of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who not only directed the war in the Pacific, he also commanded the largest ocean area and most ships of any single commander in the history of the world.

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