From Langley to Lincoln

Two principal players in that history, team up for this portrait of the U.S. aircraft carrier.

June 2023

Marine Mystique

What is this Marine Mystique anyway?

Clay Barrow
April 2023

Recovering Apollo 11

The head chief in the ship’s photo lab snapped and collected images of the historic event.

Robert Lawson
March 2023

On War Patrol at THE NEW YORKER

For nearly 70 years, the magazine has used drawings and cartoons to look at the lighter side of serious world issues.

March 2023

D-Days Forgotton

An accomplished photojournalist captured former Corpsman John Clayton peering over Green Beach, Saipan, with an enemy flag he recovered there 50 years ago.

David Gaddis
March 2023

The Bridge—Gets A New Look

The Bridge at Dong Ha, by John Grider Miller, recounts the heroic actions of then-Captain John Ripley, U.S. Marine Corps.

February 2023

Memories of the Oregon

Images of the Oregon live in the minds of battleship enthusiasts—and in photos such as these, including a close-up of her after turret and (insets, left to right) the crew ...

January 2023

Airships on Canvas

Wisconsin steamship and railroad artist Russ Porter also has captured airships in oil— here, the British airship R-34; the U.S. Navy’s Shenandoah over the West Coast in October 1924; and ...

Russ Porter
January 2023

‘One Damn Island After Another’

These timeless images by Marine Corps combat photographers and excerpts from the accounts of historians and eyewitnesses evoke the brutal realities of the drive across the Central Pacific in World ...

Philip M. Callaghan
January 2023