25 May 1915: U-21 strikes a blow against Allied naval gunfire support with the sinking of HMS Triumph. For the soldiers mired in ANZAC Cove, “it was like an old friend gone.”

On Our Scope

April 2025
One hundred and ten years ago this April, the World War I struggle for Gallipoli was unfolding, as Allied forces sought to take the strategically vital Dardanelles Strait, break open ...
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In Contact

April 2025
The World’s Greatest Underreported Invasion Captain Murdock M. Moore, U.S. Air Force (Retired) When considering the situation in the South China Sea, and the history that presaged the current tensions ...
Roland Rohlfs flew A-3325 in this 18-T-2 landplane configuration to two world record heights in 1919. Note the unusual wing structure dominated by seven horizontal span-wise spars and the original Kirkham K-12 engine.

Three Wings

By J. M. Caiella
April 2025
During aviation’s multiwing era, the triplane gained little traction in the United States. Major American manufacturers built only about 50 of them. The British had the first successful version of ...
The USS Scorpion (SSN-589), a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, was lost at sea en route to the Azores in May 1968. Her loss, just five years after the loss of the USS Thresher (SSN-593), was a reminder to navies worldwide of the dangers inherent in submarine operations.

1968: The Year of Lost Submarines

By Lieutenant Commander Jim Halsell, U.S. Navy
April 2025
The year 1968 would go down in history as a tragic and mysterious chapter in naval operations. Four submarines, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), the Soviet K-129 , the French Minerve ...
The Brooklyn waterfront, 1942: With the Battle of the Atlantic raging, the U.S. Navy recruits the aid of the New York racketeering syndicates to protect the teeming docks so crucial to the war effort. From Lucky Luciano (above) to Frank Costello (left), from Meyer Lansky to Johnny “Cockeye” Dunn, the Mob will lend its muscle to the cause.

Strange Bedfellows

By Midshipman First Class Michael Whitehouse, U.S. Navy
April 2025
Staggering losses in the Battle of the Atlantic during 1942 led many U.S. Navy officials to believe that Germany’s Kriegsmarine was receiving assistance from Axis sympathizers on the U.S. East ...
Alice Roosevelt, feisty, fiery, and independent, was so popular with the public that newspapers spoke of “Alice Fever” to describe the phenomenon. She was destined to be the first woman to submerge in a U.S. Navy submarine.

‘Princess Alice’

By William Galvani
April 2025
‘I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. I cannot possibly do both.’ —Theodore Roosevelt In August ...
12 April 1782: After suffering a humiliating defeat by the French at the Battle of the Chesapeake Capes the previous September, the Royal Navy comes roaring back with a resounding victory over the French Caribbean fleet at the Battle of the Saintes.

Caribbean Comeback

By Chuck Lyons
April 2025
When the guns had been silenced and the smoke had cleared, British Admiral Sir George Rodney had an armchair brought up to the deck of his flagship, HMS Formidable ...
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Book Reviews

April 2025
Ink, Dirt and Powder Smoke: The Civil War Letters of William F. Keeler, Paymaster on the USS Monitor Charles W. McLandress, ed. Toronto, Canada: Seal River Publishing, 2023. 696 pp ...
Admiral Reason remembered Jimmy Carter as “probably the most honest man I’ve ever known.”

Naval Aide to President Carter

April 2025
Among those whose frequent close contact with President Jimmy Carter provided many observations on his personality and character was Lieutenant Commander/Commander (later Admiral) Reason. Both Carter and Reason had received ...
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Pieces of the Past

April 2025
For the American public, World War II was a profoundly all-hands-on-deck affair—from those fighting around the globe to those on the home front, on every farm and in every factory ...