James Calvin “Kid” Nichols was a champion wrestler who was befriended by Buffalo Bill Cody, did boxing exhibitions with ...

The USS Missouri (BB-63), one of the four legendary Iowa-class battleships, is an icon of American naval might. -Many experts ...

After Lt. Commander Joseph Rochefort and his team broke the Japanese Imperial Navy’s military code, overall Pacific Fleet Commander and Admiral Chester Nimitz knew the enemy's strategy, size and ...

Chester Nimitz, born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, rose to become a key figure in the U.S. Navy during World War II. As Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz led crucial victories ...

Nimitz's new team required more than crack pilots; the yet-to-be-named Blue Angels needed someone to lead them. Roy M. "Butch" Voris (center in the photograph) was born on September 17, 1919, in ...

O'CONNELL, William F. 'Willy'. Of Dorchester, died January 31, 2025, at the age of 100 years. Predeceased by his beloved wife Mary 'Esty ...

In 1943, as the Catholic school in Indiana was drastically losing enrollment to the World War II effort, then-Notre Dame president Rev. Charles O’Donnell contacted Navy Adm. Chester Nimitz about ...

When it was over, Texas-born Chester Nimitz flew back to the Lone Star State, where every man, woman and child knew all about him and felt he had contributed mightily to the greater glory of the ...

In that capacity, he met Admiral Chester Nimitz, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

How would our world be different if Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, John Lejeune, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin had resigned after five or 10 years in uniform? As junior officers, they all likely knew ...

It was a telegram from United States Navy Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz to his great grandmother, saying his grandfather was wounded in the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.