Admiral Chester W. Nimitz with Cdr Herbert E. Schonland and LCdr Bruce McCandless aboard USS San Francisco (CA-38), in December 1942. PD. Although Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz were the two ...

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz with Cdr Herbert E. Schonland and LCdr Bruce McCandless aboard USS San Francisco (CA-38), in December 1942. PD. Although Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz were the two ...

That’s when he got his Purple Heart. “I didn’t know nothing about a Purple Heart. They told me go get ready because I was ...

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

The keel was laid down on June 22, 1968, and the ship was named on May 13, 1972, by Catherine Nimitz Lay, Admiral Nimitz’s daughter, six years after his passing. The Nimitz was delivered to the ...

During the post-Civil War cuts, the Navy’s physical and intellectual capital declined. Not so in the interwar period.

Eighty-three years ago, a generation removed from World War I, America was recovering from the Great Depression, but the ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

Admiral Chester W Nimitz Elementary School is a public school located in Honolulu, HI, which is in a large suburb setting. The student population of Admiral Chester W Nimitz Elementary School is ...