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The Coast Guard’s long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the programs to receive funding when Congress passed a spending...
Intended to offset a Soviet scientific coup in outer space, the secret undersea mission of a huge American submarine was fraught with difficulty and several near failures.
Navy Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong is an active duty naval aviator who has served tours as a search-and-rescue and special-warfare pilot and as an advanced helicopter flight instructor....
Twenty-five years ago the FBI finally shut off the biggest espionage leak in U.S. Navy history when it arrested former senior warrant officer John A. Walker.
After scrambling to assemble a fighting force, the Marines Corps battled with characteristic élan in a conflict that had more than its share of ups and downs.
With virtually no combatants to battle at sea, the U.S. Navy found itself waging a different sort of war when the Korean conflict broke out 60 years ago...
By Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy
At the epic Battle of Lake Poyang, the intrepid Zhu Yuanzhang turned the tide of Chinese history and set a course for a dynasty that would span three centuries.
China has long been regarded as a country of little naval...
As we move further into the 21st century, the Cold War, a conflict that colored world affairs for almost half the last century, is due for a recollective renaissance. Best-selling books, blockbuster movies, and celebrated miniseries are proof of...
Sixty years ago this summer, the United States was figuratively caught with its pants down on the other side of the world. What we have come to know as the Korean War began on 25 June 1950, when six North Korean infantry...
In New York's Finger Lakes region, Hammondsport sits at the southern end of Keuka Lake. It is home to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, which is within walking distance of the aviation pioneer's...
Intended to offset a Soviet scientific coup in outer space, the secret undersea mission of a huge American submarine was fraught with difficulty and several near failures.
By Claude R. "Red" Canup and Linda Canup Keaton-Lima
Okinawa Dispatches
Marines in an airfield control tower got a shock when a plane loaded with Japanese commandos made a belly landing and the raiders began blowing up U.S. aircraft.
Lockheed twin-engine, twin-tail passenger aircraft were familiar sights at American and foreign airports during the 1930s. The most famous, which was featured prominently in movie newsreel and magazine photos, was...