Captain Raymond Peet

From Little Beavers to Nuclear Bainbridge

Future Navy Vice Admiral Raymond E. Peet recalls his time as a gunnery officer in the heat of the battle of the Pacific in his 1984 oral history.

A. Denis Clift
February 2023
ship's stern

Mighty Mo Hard on Sand

The USS Missouri (BB-63), otherwise known as “Mighty Mo,” was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in January 1944 and commissioned that June.

A. Denis Clift
January 2023
ADM Meyer

‘Aegis to Sea’

Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer recalls his time as weapons system manager, Advanced Surface Missile System (Aegis), Naval Ordnance System Command in his oral history.

A. Denis Clift
December 2022
Marines

The Marine Band

In these edited Proceedings excerpts, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Edwin N. McClellan details how the Marine Corps band came to be.

A. Denis Clift
November 2022
The Soviet ship Poltava en route to Cuba in September 1962.

Task Force 135 On Course for Cuba

Admiral Alfred Ward commanded the U.S. forces that enforced the Cuban quarantine following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A. Denis Clift
October 2022
Aeromarine 39B trainer aircraft

Arresting Gear for the Langley

At 20 years old in 1917, Alfred M. Pride left his Tufts Engineering School campus for the Boston Navy Yard to enlist in the Naval Reserve.

By A. Denis Clift
September 2022
airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)

Gliding from the Los Angeles

Ralph S. Barnaby designed and built his first man-carrying glider in 1909. As he recalls in these edited excerpts from his Naval Institute oral history.

By A. Denis Clift
July 2022
Vice Admiral Jerome H. King Jr.

Whiz Kids and the Chiefs

Jerome H. King Jr. looks back on life in the CNOs’ office dealing with Secretary Robert McNamara and his systems analysis “Whiz Kids.”

A. Denis Clift
June 2022