_Cape Cod’s Most Famous
Summer Resident_
Cape Cod’s most distinguished summer visitor--Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz--plans to resume his summer vacationing in Wellfleet, Cape Cod,
after the war.
The great Naval leader who is directing the defeat of Japan manages
to keep up correspondence with his sister-in-law, Miss Elizabeth E.
Freeman of Wellfleet. Miss Freeman, who is Mrs. Nimitz’s sister, says
he has written her how he misses the Cape and that he looks forward to
his return.
For many years the Admiral and his family have vacationed in Wellfleet.
Their haven is deeply secluded in the woods on Gull Pond Road. The
inaccessibility of the place is the reason why, perhaps, so few people
are aware of the Cape Cod ties of one of the illustrious figures of
modern world history.
The Admiral’s efficient and courageous son, Lieut. Commander Chester W.
Nimitz, Jr., who has been twice decorated for heroism, calls Wellfleet
his home. He has done so in making out his personal Naval records ever
since his graduation from Annapolis, Miss Freeman informed me. As late
as last summer Commander Nimitz managed to get in a Wellfleet visit,
and his wife and child spent all the summer there.