A brief history of the American tradition of the military flyover.

Highlights from the April 2020 issue of Naval History.

During World War II, then-Captain Truman Johnson Hedding (1902–95) was at the forefront of events during the final phase of fighting in the Pacific. He got up close and personal ...

Robert Fulton Weir used his artistic talents to sketch scenes of shipboard life during the sectional conflict.

After bouncing between Atlantic and Pacific theaters observing U.S. naval operations during World War II, Samuel Eliot Morison embarked on an equally arduous undertaking: writing his 15-volume history of the ...

Bikini Wreck Sites Mapped In a remote Pacific locale in the 1940s and ’50s, the United States conducted a series of nuclear weapons tests, sinking warships, tanks, and other vehicles ...

Midshipman Charles G. Ridgely firmly grasped a telescope as he perched himself at the bow of the schooner Nautilus on the night of 4 September 1804. First Lieutenant George Reed ...