Captain Dye graciously answers a selection of those additional questions for Naval History Online.

As we concluded Part One of this look back on the 20th anniversary of the Naval Institute Press book History Makers: Interviews, a longtime U.S. Naval Institute member, retired ...

The author digs into a story his grandfather told about an incident that occurred on 28 January 1944 off the coast of Anzio during the Italian campaign.

Naval Reserve Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan, known by many as “Captain Mac,” lived an adventurous life that few can imagine. An expert on the people, climate, and geography of ...

Future Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949. He was commissioned an ensign in 1953, graduating first in his class. He reported to the destroyer ...

There are arch-foes whose names remain forever linked: Montcalm and Wolfe. Holmes and Moriarty. And, of especially enduring interest to us, Nelson and Napoleon. Arguably even more than the obvious ...

If you’re a naval-oriented collector, perhaps you own a battleship model, be it a plastic Revell or a handcrafted beauty worth hundreds of dollars.

In America, the final days of October will be dominated by the presidential election and COVID-19. But 58 Octobers ago, from the 16th to the 28th, the world faced the ...

On 29 April 1898, Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete of the Spanish Navy steamed out of the Cape Verde Islands with a fleet of four armored cruisers and three destroyers ...

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 ...