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.
A painting depicting the 1974 retrieval of the wreckage of the K-129 by the Hughes Glomar Explorer. (Note the stylized depiction of the wreckage; it was not actually that cleanly cylindrical.)

Inside Project Azorian

By Captain Jack G. Newman, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired)
December 2025
The last surviving participant serves up a firsthand account of the CIA mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine in the 1970s.
The Marine Corps Women’s Reserve of the 3d Marine Air Wing pass in review at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Havelock, North Carolina, November 1943.

First Director of Women Marines

By Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter, U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve (Retired)
December 2025
On 10 November of this year, the Marine Corps musters justifiable pride on the 250th anniversary of its founding. Less well known is the origin of the women’s branch.


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