Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

USS Nimitz is set to undergo its decommissioning process at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia. A fter Secretary of Defense Pete ...

The U.S. Navy said the deployment of USS Nimitz will focus on protecting the nation's security, freedom, and prosperity.

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

All but one of the ten carriers was named after political figures that helped the navy. The sole exception was the lead ship, which was named after the World War II Pacific commander, Admiral Chester ...

At the national level he was awarded the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award for exemplary leadership in the maritime defense industry. He also served on a Presidential Commission on Merchant ...

The United States Navy possesses the world’s largest ... orders of magnitude higher than what they were back when Admiral Chester Nimitz led American carriers into battle in the Pacific Theater.

Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington ... He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of ...

Fredericksburg Fire EMS has responded to 32 grass fires this year, more than half the 2024 total of 53. This includes the Crabapple Fire, the nearly 1 ...