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Catherine Nimitz at her desk in the US Naval Hospital at Oakland, California. Courtesy National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive.

Catherine Nimitz Volunteered to Support the US W...

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Jan. 07, 2025
While Catherine Nimitz’s husband led the Pacific Fleet to victory in World War II, she made her own...
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Passing of President Jimmy Carter

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Dec. 29, 2024
It is with deep regret I inform you of the passing of President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. on 29 December...
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This plaque commemorates the sailors onboard the Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). M. Brodsky can be seen in the leftmost column. The plaque was displayed aboard the Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58), and helped inspire that ship’s crew when it was hit by an Iranian mine in 1988.

Maurice Brodsky: An “Average Enlisted Man” at th...

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Oct. 23, 2024
Eighty years ago, a handful of American destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers faced off against a...
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Former POWs U.S. Navy Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, right, and U.S. Navy Capt. James A. Alfred Mulligan, left, talk during their flight on a Military Airlift Command C-141 Starlifter after being released by the North Vietnamese in February 1973 (National Archives and Records Administration 330-CFD-DD-ST-99-04242).

Remembering Resistance: U.S. Navy POWs at the Ha...

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Sep. 18, 2024
On Aug. 5, 1964, Lt. j.g. Everett Alvarez, Jr., a young U.S. Navy aviator, had just finished bombing a North...
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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas.

Dec. 12, 2022

Admiral Chester Nimitz Takes Command in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor

On the morning of 16 December 1941, nine days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Rear