Naval History and Heritage Command

On Our Scope

August 2016
With a crowd of curious Doughboys looking on, a dozen Bluejackets in peacoats and watch caps gaze at the camera, most smiling broadly. It seems ironic; their disheveled appearance and ...

Contributors

August 2016
James P. Delgado, director of Maritime Heritage for the National Marine Sanctuaries Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has led or participated in shipwreck expeditions around the ...
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive

In Contact

August 2016
A Reliable Witness?Joe JordanIn the June issue, a painting that runs with Norman C. Delaney’s article, “The Firing Here Became Continual,” shows the CSS Alabama flying the Confederate ...
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive

Naval History News

August 2016
Happy 25th, DDG-51This 4th of July will enjoy extra significance for the U.S. Navy, as it marks the 25th anniversary of a ship class that has become a bulwark of ...
J. M. Caiella

Historic Ships - First and Forgotten

By J. M. Caiella
August 2016
Saratoga is a seminal American ship name that virtually spans the nation’s existence. Six ships have carried the name in the commissioned service of their country, although one—the first—was not ...
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive

Bluejackets vs. Bolsheviks

By Robert L. Willett
August 2016
From battling the Spanish at Manila Bay to bringing home the remains of the Great War’s American Unknown Soldier, officers and enlisted men of the USS Olympia (C-6) served heroically ...
Courtesy of the Author

Olympian Effort to Save the Olympia

By Carl LaVO
August 2016
Kevin Smith stood in the port-side main-deck compartment, opening valves on a bulkhead control manifold. Equipment roared to life, pistons rising and falling on a rotating crankshaft as a chain ...
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive

How Promise Turned to Disappointment

By Norman Friedman
August 2016
A century ago President Woodrow Wilson signed into law what at the time was the largest expansion of the U.S. Navy. In previous years, Congress had generally appropriated, say, two ...
The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA

The Navy's 'Imitation Game'

By David Sears
August 2016
Allied and Axis forces constantly jockeyed for advantage during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, not only over weaponry and tactics, but also over technology and information. The ...
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive

Flags Not of Our Fathers?

By the Staff of Naval History
August 2016
The U.S. Marine Corps verified this spring that it has launched an investigation into some identity-discrepancies regarding the Iwo Jima flag raisers in Joe Rosenthal’s renowned AP photograph of 23 ...
Geoff Nutkins/www.shoreham-aircraft-Museum.co.uk

The Royal Navy's Incomparable Aviator

By Barrett Tillman
August 2016
Just as some Major League ballplayers don’t know much about George Herman “Babe” Ruth, some career naval aviators have never heard of Captain Eric M. Brown, Royal Navy. But the ...
Jonathan L. Hoppe

'Today We Sail into History'

By Jonathan L. Hoppe
August 2016
The morning of Saturday, 30 April 2016 had not yet dawned on Annapolis when signs of activity could be seen at the seawall at the U.S. Naval Academy. Guests and ...
Naval History and Heritage Command

'Missing and Presumed Lost'

By James P. Delgado
August 2016
Eternal Father, strong to save,Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deepIts own appointed limits keep;Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,For those in ...
U.S. Navy

Historic Aircraft - Four Engines and No Tailhook

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
August 2016
Several four-engine aircraft have flown from carriers. Two such quadruple-engined planes intended from the outset for carrier operation were developed by the Royal Navy during World War II: the Airspeed ...

Book Reviews

August 2016
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the WarJonathan Dimbleby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Photos. Maps. Illus. Notes. Index. Select Biblio. 560 pp. $34.95.Reviewed ...
Richard Latture

Pieces of the Past

August 2016
Sometimes, even in defeat there is a modicum of victory, with the sting of loss ameliorated by a main mission nonetheless achieved. And sometimes, it’s not just to the victor ...