Winkler Receives Distinguished Service Award

Dr. David F. Winkler, historian at the Naval Historical Foundation, has been named a recipient of the National Maritime Historical Society’s Distinguished Service Award “for his extraordinary contributions to the maritime and naval history field and his efforts to bring the maritime heritage community together to form alliances, share ideas, and inspire new initiatives.”

Winkler, a Naval Institute Press author and frequent contributor to Naval History magazine (See “Book Reviews,” p. 58, and “Witness to Naval Aviation History,” April, pp. 30–37), has organized numerous National Maritime Alliance and North American Society for Oceanic History conferences.

This year’s other recipients of the National Maritime Historical Society’s Distinguished Service Award are Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Kristen L. Greenaway, Chief Executive Officer of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.