Naval History News

2025 Navy History and Heritage Awards Program Announced

The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in January officially announced the 2025 Navy History and Heritage Awards (NHHA) Program season. The NHHA Program was established in 2020 to recognize ...

March 2025

WWII/Pearl Harbor's Oldest Living Survivor has died at 105.

Oldest Pearl Harbor Survivor Dies at Age 105

The oldest survivor of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Warren “Red” Upton, died last December in Los Gatos, California, after a battle with pneumonia. He was ...

March 2025

A pioneering explorer: During a 2017 commemorative event, Don Walsh speaks about his time as pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, in which he reached the deepest part of the ocean in 1960.

Explorer-Class Ship to Be Named in Honor of Don Walsh

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the new class of T-AGOS ocean surveillance ships will be named the Explorer class—and that the first ship in the class ...

March 2025

The wreck of the USS Edsall, which fought to the bitter end before being sunk in 1942, has been located in the Indian Ocean.

Another Legendary Lost Ship Found

The Royal Australian Navy announced in November that it had located the wreck of the USS Edsall (DD-219 in the Indian Ocean about 200 miles east of Christmas Island.

January 2025

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro speaks to audience members during a ceremony for the new National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, D.C.

Site for National Navy Museum Formally Announced

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro formally announced the site for the new National Museum of the United States Navy during an October ceremony at the location.

January 2025

Historian Wood Named 2024 Knox Award Honoree

Virginia Steele Wood has been named the recipient of the 2024 Commodore Dudley W. Knox Award.

January 2025

2024 CNO Naval History Essay Contest Winners Honored

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti was on hand to mark the occasion as the winners of the 2024 CNO Naval History Essay Contest were announced in an awards ...

January 2025

Navy Department Library Reopens to Public in New Facility

The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) on 9 September announced the reopening of the Navy Department Library on the Washington Navy Yard.

November 2024

Left to right: Panel moderator Alex Pocklington (aka Drachininfel), Thomas J. Cutler, Paul Stillwell, and Trent Hone take a deep dive into the greatest naval battle in history during a commemorative event at the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center in Annapolis, Maryland.

Distinguished Panel Commemorates ‘Leyte Gulf at 80’

The U.S. Naval Institute on 11 September presented “Leyte Gulf at 80.”

November 2024

Lambert Wins 2024 Morison Award for Neptune Factor

Nicholas A. Lambert is the winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature for his book The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea ...

November 2024

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