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

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

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 ...

Lieutenant Commander James J. Hughes, skipper of an anchored American gunboat, had just finished lunch when he was informed that ...

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

On the night of 4 March 1776, Continental Army batteries positioned at Cambridge, just east of Boston, opened fire on ...

Navy Ensign Albert Earnest sat in the cockpit of his brand new Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bomber, watching ghostly images ...

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 ...