USS Nimitz aircraft carrier heading home after losing fighter jet, helicopter in South China Sea within 30 minutes ...

Thousands of commuters cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge every day, but few realize that beneath its eastern span lies a piece of military history.

In the run-up to World War II, Japan had a clear naval advantage over the U.S. It had a larger agile fleet manned by legions of experienced sailors. Yet in battle after battle, Adm. Chester Nimitz led ...

The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975. Huntington Ingalls Inc. has received an $18.4 million contract from U.S. Naval ...

Surviving Australian veterans of the Battle of the Coral Sea will be flown to New York next month to commemorate the battle’s 75th anniversary. Staff Officer Heritage Research at the Sea Power Centre ...

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, ...

Sister M. Aquinas Nimitz, O.P. (Mary Manson Nimitz) Died peacefully at Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in San Rafael on February 27th, 2006 of complications from cancer. She was 74 years old. Sister ...

On the desk in the breezy, rambling headquarters building in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard lay charts, reconnaissance reports, intelligence advices. These charts, reports, advices were the hither end of a ...