Naval Base Kitsap would swap the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, for its newest, the USS John F. Kennedy, ...

President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin form a ...

At his new, Seabee-built headquarters on Guam, Chester William Nimitz sat at a shiny new desk. He wore khaki shorts, and an open-necked shirt with the five stars of a fleet admiral on the points ...

The sole exception was the lead ship, which was named after the World War II Pacific commander, Admiral Chester Nimitz. The successor to the Nimitz class continues the tradition, being named after ...

Chester Nimitz in 1885 -- Actor Marjorie Main in 1890 -- Actor Abe Vigoda in 1921 -- International Motorsports Hall of Fame member Alain Prost in 1955 (age 70) -- Baseball Hall of Fame member ...

The key difference between then and now, however, is that the cost of America’s carriers are orders of magnitude higher than what they were back when Admiral Chester Nimitz led American carriers ...

How should we think about this rare purge at the very top of the uniformed military? Is it unprecedented? What are the likely consequences on the Department of Defense’s mission?

Maurizio continued serving in his beloved Navy under the command of Admiral Chester Nimitz. He landed Marines on the beach at Iwo Jima in February 1945 after days of participating in the naval ...

Roosevelt fired the Army general and the Navy admiral who had been in charge in Hawaii, and brought in Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur. A few years later, President Harry ...

Evan Mawdsley’s Supremacy at Sea is an engaging and fast moving account of the opening moves of the U.S. Navy’s Central Pacific offensive during the first half of 1944 and that offensive’s driving ...

How can you win your wars? Sunday, December 7, 1941. Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington DC. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, ...