FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (KWTX) - On September 2, 1945, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz from Fredericksburg signed the surrender with Japan that ended World War II. He was named commander in chief of the ...

“The Japs are going to get plenty,” said Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in a press interview last week. “The tempo of the air war will be stepped up very, very much. They will be hit by carrier as ...

The National Museum of the Pacific War is located in Fredericksburg, Texas, the boyhood home of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Fleet Admiral Nimitz served as CinCPAC, Commander in Chief, United ...

In 1942, US intelligence achieved the impossible by cracking Japan's naval code, revealing a devastating plot to annihilate ...

World War II Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, a settlement of German immigrants in the Hill Country. He was fluent in German. His frail father, Chester Bernhard Nimitz, ...

Brian Cuccias, the retired president of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, accepted the Navy League of the United States’ Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award ...

U.S. and South Korean sailors await the arrival of the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, named after former Adm. Chester Nimitz, in Busan, South Korea, on March 28, 2023. File Photo by ...

Surviving Australian veterans of the Battle of the Coral Sea will be flown to New York next month to commemorate the battle’s 75th anniversary. Staff Officer Heritage Research at the Sea Power Centre ...

On the desk in the breezy, rambling headquarters building in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard lay charts, reconnaissance reports, intelligence advices. These charts, reports, advices were the hither end of a ...

After decades of faithful service to the United States Navy, it is time for the USS Nimitz to return to its homeport.

Inventory staff, 2007 (A Walk-Through Tour of the Art Collection brochure). https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source ...