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 Aq… ...

The Nimitz is the first of the class of 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers based on the same design. It’s named after former five-star admiral Chester Nimitz, a Navy leader in World War II.

BREMERTON, Wash. -- The memorial for a naval officer killed in a crash on Highway 16 this week was held Friday on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier. Navy Lieutenant Commander Regina Mills, 44, was ...

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 ...

Key Points – The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers served as the cornerstone of US naval power projection for four decades, representing a “quantum leap” in carrier technology when introduced.

What You Need to Know: The USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the lead ship of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, symbolizes a pivotal era in U.S. Navy history. Commissioned in 1975, it ...

On Dec. 17, 1941, 10 days after a devastating Japanese sneak attack, the wrecked battleships of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet were bleeding oil into the waters of Pearl Harbor, and Adm. Chester ...

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay By Craig L. Symonds (Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95) We have no dearth of Political Generals, that is, with a capital ...

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 ...