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 ...

At Admiral Chester W Nimitz Elementary School, 67% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 75% scored at or above that level for reading. The school’s minority student ...

You might think that advancing tech will always be most important to the military, but one aircraft carrier has been in ...

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 ...

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 the Japanese hammer blow fell? Almost assuredly. History may ...

Admiral Chester Nimitz became a national hero during the pivotal battle for control of Midway 75 years ago this week, nowhere more than in the Bay Area, where he was a presence before and after ...

Named after Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the Navy's last five-star admiral, the keel of the ship was first laid on 22 June 1968.

AMERICA is sending the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier to the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates. The hulking $4.5billion nuclear-powered supercarrier, nicknamed Old Salt, ...

Chester W. Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, on Feb. 24, 1885, near a ship-shaped hotel that his retired sea captain grandfather built.The future admiral, whose father died before Nimitz ...