Wednesday is the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese during World War II, ...

Navy Rear Adm. Chester W. Nimitz Jr., a highly decorated World War II submarine officer who was the son of the fleet admiral who helped oversee the Allied victory in that war, died Jan. 2 with his ...

Chester W. Nimitz's naval career included a few bobbles on the way to becoming a fleet admiral and war hero. First, he was denied entry to West Point. Shaking off the rejection, the young Texan ...

Nimitz organized the “island-hopping” campaigns ... but his status as a fleet admiral kept him on active duty. He served as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, advising ...

In his portrait of Adm. Chester Nimitz, Craig L. Symonds, professor emeritus of naval history at the U.S. Naval Academy, shows that not only did Nimitz possess vision, but he was also gifted with ...

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 ...

After the war ended, ADM Nimitz served a two-year stint as the tenth Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). He retired on December 15, 1947, with the rank of Fleet Admiral five stars, thus becoming the ...

After World War II, Quarters 1’s most famous occupant moved in: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Nimitz was appointed to take command of the Pacific fleet days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The 1,092-foot-long USS Nimitz named after the legendary World War II naval commander Adm. Chester William Nimitz Sr. was one of the largest ships on earth at the time of its commission and saw ...