Chester William Nimitz was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, ...

Named after Chester W. Nimitz, a World War II Pacific fleet commander and the Navy’s third fleet admiral, it’s one of the largest warships in the world. The Nimitz was built as CVAN-68 ...

To replace aging Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations, President Truman last week picked Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 56, commander of the Pacific Fleet. A onetime chief of naval ...

Born in 1924, he has a century of stories in his recollection, with front row experience, from Tivy High School to the ...

For Pearl Harbor, the Japanese forged a strategic weapon of six heavy carriers for a coordinated attack by 360 planes on ...

How did the combat valor of a young Marine from Kearny who selflessly gave his life in the Pacific during World War II ...

The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, has returned to the fleet after completing its Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.