Here’s What You Need to Remember: Individual leadership matters. Would World War II have taken a different course had Admiral Chester W. Nimitz been in charge at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when ...

Not since the London mob cheered gaudy Lord Nelson had any sailorman returned to port from victories so vast. But Americans were inclined to be a little vague about the U.S. Navy’s white-haired, ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (KWTX) - On September 2, 1945, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz from Fredericksburg signed the surrender with Japan that ended World War II. He was named commander in chief of the ...

Christmas Day 1941, Admiral Chester Nimitz arrived alone by Catalina flying boat to command the Pacific Fleet. He saw the Pearl Harbor attack had missed dry-docks, repair shops and the tank farm.

A number of major national and local Jewish organizations in a joint statement today denounced as “infamous” slurs cast upon Defense Secretary George C. Marshall and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz by ...

The scene in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 4, 1975, awakened memories of earlier ceremonies in the historic place where many Navy ships embarked upon their service on the Seven Seas. Historic aircraft ...

Brian Cuccias, the retired president of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, accepted the Navy League of the United States’ Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award ...

World War II Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, a settlement of German immigrants in the Hill Country. He was fluent in German. His frail father, Chester Bernhard Nimitz, ...

T he US Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier in service remains in the South China Sea. According to satellite imagery published ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In all likelihood, then, U.S. naval forces would have been better prepared to defend themselves on December 7 than they were under Kimmel’s stewardship. If they ...