The Nimitz, which was named for Adm. Chester Nimitz, has a crew of more than 3,200 and another 2,500 or more when carrying its air wing. The Navy plans to maintain its congressionally mandated 11 ...

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

We’re a long way from when Adm. Chester Nimitz could insist that the USS Yorktown get repaired in three days after the Battle ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

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 ...

There were so many legendary figures of enormous but still secondary importance — Generals George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz and ...

USS Nimitz is set to undergo its decommissioning process at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia. A fter Secretary of Defense Pete ...

The U.S. Navy said the deployment of USS Nimitz will focus on protecting the nation's security, freedom, and prosperity.

What happens when a Navy captain and a historian walk into a bar? They come out with a hit podcast about the Pacific War.

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 ...