The aircraft designation system currently in use by all branches of the armed forces can be confusing, but it is mostly logical and definitely decipherable.

Heading a naval recon unit that helped liberate Cherbourg, a Coast Guard commander became crucial to the Normandy invasion.

The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis, To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire, and Wade ...

Fewer than 30 vessels that served in the Normandy invasion are still afloat. The U.S. Army large tug LT-5 is the last functional U.S. Army vessel that participated.

Copper sheathing was the final chapter in a long-running battle between the world’s navies and one of their most persistent foes—the dreaded shipworm.

Rear Admiral H. Spencer Matthews was the first U.S. Navy former enlisted pilot to make flag rank—one of only two to have done so.