Thursday, February 20, 2014

WWII History Geek Bonanza! Famed Nimitz Diary to Be Revealed Online Monday the 24th With Live Chat Component

This is wayyyyyyyy cool!

"The Naval War College Library in Newport, R.I. will publicly unveil online the 4,000-page "Gray Book" collection of Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz communications that started in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack and ran right up until the closing days of the war. The event will be held Monday, Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern."

"The event, held on the anniversary of Nimitz' 129th birthday, will be streamed live on the Navy Live Blog (http://navylive.dodlive.mil/). It will feature a lecture discussing the Gray Book as well as a question & answer session with U.S. Naval Academy Professor of History Emeritus Craig L. Symonds, PhD, author of numerous books including "The Battle of Midway," in which he recounts the pivotal role played by Nimitz in what was the turning point of the war in the Pacific."

"Viewers of the live stream will be able to submit questions via an interactive chat."