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Just as the first watch began on the evening of 11 July 1950, a team of four Marines and four ...

To the uninformed, naval strategy is often confused with tactics—the maneuvering of ships on a “chessboard without squares.” To those ...

In 1948, Chief Machinist’s Mate Richard McKenna had a bone to pick with the Navy. Postwar personnel assignment policies—probably made ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins once publicly declared that students attending the U.S. Naval Academy learned “fancy dancing, football, fencing, boxing—things like ...

In the December 1968 Proceedings, Lieutenants Alexander Monroe and Thomas Lane wrote: “There was an inescapable sense of history ...

In 1866, barely a year after the end of the American Civil War, a U.S. merchant vessel, the General Sherman ...

For the Americans it was the day after Valentine’s Day, 1967; for the Vietnamese it was the end of the ...

On 20 November 1861, an unusual flotilla got under way from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Flags flew along the shore, crowds ...

Every spring, crowds gather in front of the U.S. Naval Academy chapel to watch members of that academic year’s plebe ...

In the early morning of 22 February 1969, a radio call from a Marine outpost just south of the so-called ...