Captain Amedeo H. Galvani, USN (Ret) recalls his summer cruise as a midshipman during the summer of 1940.

When we left off at Part 9, my grandfather's ship, the USS Sway (AM-120), was off the coast of San Tropez, France, participating in Operation Dragoon. As the initial landings ...

October 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Naval Institute Press book History Makers: Interviews. Assembled in this volume is a select lineup of notable people whose words appeared in ...

When we left off with my grandfather's ship, the USS Sway (AM-120), it was 14 August 1944. The Sway, an Auk-class minesweeper, was off the coast of southern France preparing ...

Following World War I, the Japanese military developed a new approach to amphibious warfare.

When Sir John Barrow took up the position as Second Secretary of the Admiralty of the United Kingdom in 1804, he inherited a legacy of European naval exploration that spanned ...

Our previous installment left off at the end of June with my grandfather's ship, the USS Sway (AM-120), operating in Italy and preparing to return to combat after undergoing refitting ...

In this audio excerpt from his oral history, Rear Admiral John Coye describes the tenth war patrol of the USS Silversides (SS-236) and the sinking of three Japanese ships off ...

The U.S. Navy's Largest Peacetime Loss of Ships.

Shortly after joining his ship, the USS Sway (AM-120), an Auk-class minesweeper, my grandfather, Seaman Thomas Schreck, arrived in Bizerte, Tunisia, at the Karouba air and sea base. The Sway ...

To most civilians, the pervasive use of acronyms, initialisms, and jargon in the U.S. Navy may seem like an impenetrable secret language. Although many naval words and phrases have managed ...

A legendary figure within Navy circles, Captain Phil H. Bucklew devoted his entire Navy career to scouting, raiding, and intelligence. One of the Navy's first "frogmen" and a charter member ...