US major Command HQ's dates of establishment

[akdreemer]

Well while we are modifying CHS we should take note of when certain HQ's were actually established...

AREA COMMANDERS

Pacific Ocean Areas
(Established 3 April 1942)
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: 8 May 1942--2 September 1945

North Pacific Area
(Established 17 May 1942)
Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald: 17 May 1942--4 January 1943
Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid: 4 January 1943--11 October 1943
Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher: 11 October 1943--2 September 1945

South Pacific Area
(Established 20 April 1942)
Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley: 19 June 1942--18 October 1942
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.: 18 October 1942--15 June 1944
Vice Admiral John H. Newton: 15 June 1944--13 March 1945
Vice Admiral William L. Calhoun: 13 March 1945--2 September 1945

Southeast Pacific Area
(Established 8 December 1941)
Rear Admiral Abel T. Bidwell: 8 December 1941--6 January 1942
Rear Admiral John F. Shafroth: 6 January 1942--25 December 1942
Rear Admiral Francis E.M. Whiting: 25 December 1942--12 October 1943
Rear Admiral Harold C. Train: 12 October 1943--8 June 1944
Captain Ellis S. Stone (A): 8 June 1944--3 November 1944
Rear Admiral Howard F. Kingman: 3 November 1944--9 July 1945
Captain Schuyler Mills (A): 9 July 1945--23 August 1945
Rear Admiral John R. Beardall: 23 August 1945--2 September 1945

Southwest Pacific Area
(Established 18 April 1942)
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: 18 April 1942--2 September 1945

Source:
Appendix A, Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War Two

Can be found at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN ... ron-I.html