The main battery on board the Japanese flagship Matsushima during the Battle of the Yalu River, 17 September 1894.

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Highlights from the April 2021 issue of Naval History.

April 2021
An F-14 Tomcat from VF-41, embarked on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), flies combat air patrol during Operation Desert Storm.

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Highlights from the February 2021 issue of Naval History Magazine.

Eric Mills
February 2021
Marines on Wake Island fire a .30-caliber Browning machine gun on 23 December 1941—the final day of fighting—in this illustration by artist Albin Henning.

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There are arch-foes whose names remain forever linked: Montcalm and Wolfe. Holmes and Moriarty. And, of especially enduring interest to us, Nelson and Napoleon. Arguably even more than the obvious ...

Eric Mills
January 2021
A signalman at his post during World War II convoy operations.

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World War II ended 75 years ago—and with it, the most epic-scale naval warfare the world has ever seen. We’ve been covering the salient naval historical highlights throughout these 75th ...

October 2020
Aaron Schneider directs Tom Hanks in a Greyhound scene.

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Highlights from the August 2020 issue of Naval History Magazine.

August 2020
Launched on 24 November 1859, France’s La Gloire was the world’s first oceangoing ironclad battleship.

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Highlights from the June 2020 issue of Naval History.

Richard G. Latture
May 2020
Kamikaze pilot Shunsuke Tomiyasu

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Highlights from the April 2020 issue of Naval History.

Richard G. Latture
March 2020
Illustrator McClelland Barclay's sketch of Lieutenant Commander Samuel Eliot Morison

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Highlights from the February 2020 issue of Naval History, plus recollections of the Iwo Jima Memorial and recalling Lieutenant Commander Samuel E. Morison's China Clipper flight with illustrator McClelland Barclay.

January 2020
William Forbes-Sempill shows Japanese Admiral Heihachiro Togo the interior of a British-built Sparrowhawk fighter in 1921.

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A naval adage all too often overlooked by historians is that to fight you must stay afloat, well illustrated in this issue's theme of damage control and naval aviation.

Richard G. Latture
December 2019
Verg Bloomquist posing with the August 2019 issue of Naval History

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Seventy-five years ago, the Pacific war reached a new level of horror ashore and of magnitude at sea and in the skies.

Richard G. Latture
October 2019