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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aerial view of the pier at the Nimitz Marine Facility on San Diego Harbor. The Nimitz Marine Facility (MarFac) is the home port and technical support center for the Scripps oceanographic research ...

The USS Abraham Lincoln, the flagship of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, returned to San Diego on Dec. 20 after ...