The Nimitz House, the former home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, below the eastern span of the Bay Bridge on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, Calif. on May 2, 2023.

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 ...

In the 1990s, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown had his heart set on the former Navy residence of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz on an island in the bay. Official residences can be problematic.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.