Highlights from Naval History
“From the Halls of Montezuma”: After storming the ramparts of Chapultepec Castle, General John A. Quitman and a battalion of Marines enter Mexico City, 1847.

On Our Scope

December 2025
In this issue we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps with a variety of offerings showcasing various chapters of their illustrious history.
This composite photograph is virtually always identified as depicting the airship Los Angeles (ZR-3) landed on board the aircraft carrier Saratoga (CV-3). But what’s shown never happened.

The Caption is Key

By J. M. Caiella
December 2025
From the early years of the 20th century into about the mid-1930s, airplanes shared the world’s skies with much larger aircraft—huge rigid airships commonly known as zeppelins.


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