In this week's Texas Minute history column, Ken Bridges looks at the life and legacy of Admiral Chester Nimitz.

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USS Nimitz is set to undergo its decommissioning process at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia. A fter Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dispatched a second carrier strike group to j ...

Summary: The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, named after Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, have been pivotal to the U.S. Navy's power projection since the mid-1970s. -Despite plans to replace them with ...

Sailors look out from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz in Puget Sound, Washington, on March 21, 2025, as they embark for San Deigo, and then onto their Indo-Pacific deployment.

Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base Kitsap on Mar. 21, 2025, for a deployment to the Indo-Pacific.

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific on Friday. This will likely be the last deployment for the USS ...

The USS Nimitz, the Navy's oldest active aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Friday for its likely final deployment. The Nimitz is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2026. The departure leaves ...