Naval History and Heritage Command

Beep, Beep, BOOM!

By Captain Amedeo H. Galvani, U.S. Navy (Retired), with Captain William Galvani, U.S. Navy (Retired)
July 2011
A former destroyerman remembers, in gripping detail, a clash with a Japanese convoy on his "most exciting night of World War II."
Robert Fulton

Man of War

By Alan Rems
July 2011
A protean force of multiple talents and diverse passions, Robert Fulton was ahead of his time in terms of warship technology.
Karen Stillwell

Surrounded by a Sea of Books

By Paul Stillwell
July 2011
Several years ago I wrote a column titled “Confessions of a Bookaholic” (Naval History, October 1997). The thrust of it was that I have a serious addiction, and ...
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive

Flight Line

By Hill Goodspeed, Historian, National Naval Aviation Museum
July 2011
The Defining War On 29 March 1945, the skipper of the carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) wrote in a letter to his wife: “It was a great victory to have stayed ...

Farragut’s Forgotten Flagship

By Robert J. Cressman
July 2011
The call of “square-rigger in sight,” standing toward the harbor entrance at Newport, Rhode Island, late one afternoon in December 1901, prompted commotion on the foc’sle of the training ship ...