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Pieces of the Past

When Lieutenant (junior grade) Corwin Mendenhall Jr. received word that he had been promoted to lieutenant, he was a long way from a Navy uniform shop.

September 2022
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Pieces of the Past

Soviet postal authorities and their Russian Federation successors have honored numerous historic and modern warships.

August 2022
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Pieces of the Past

An artifact in the National Museum of American History tells the intriguing tale of a U.S. Navy connection to, of all things, the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Frank A. Blazich Jr.
May 2022
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Pieces of the Past

Letters from Amelia Earhart to President Roosevelt detail her plans to circumnavigate the globe.

Eric Mills
March 2022
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Pieces of the Past

In October 2021, the popular online massive multiplayer game World of Warships released a peculiar ship into the game’s U.S. fleet.

Jack Russell
January 2022
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Pieces of the Past

The history of U.S. naval aviation, at least up to the start of the jet age, is celebrated on a number of U.S. postage stamps.

Michael Markowitz
November 2021

Pieces of the Past

The history of U.S. naval aviation, at least up to the start of the jet age, is celebrated on a number of U.S. postage stamps. Collectors usually reference stamps by ...

November 2021
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Pieces of the Past

Armed with a magnetic influence exploder, a single torpedo could destroy a single target.

Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr
September 2021
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Pieces of the Past

Seventy-five years ago this July, mushroom clouds—billowing, towering, weirdly majestic in their terrible magnitude—filled the sky for the first time since the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings that had ended World War II ...

Eric Mills
July 2021