USS Enterprise Begins Final Overseas Deployment
USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – and at 51 years of age, its longest …
Naval Forces
Former Shipfitter Syl Puccio Awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
On Feb. 20, 2012, more than seventy years after the event, a Pearl Harbor veteran will be decorated for his …
Admirals Ernest J. King and Chester W. Nimitz
In the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox decided that …
Wingman to the End: Lt. j.g. Thomas Hudner, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, and the Medal of Honor
Thomas Hudner had no idea how things were going to unfold on Dec. 4, 1950. As a carrier-based U.S. Navy …
Utah Was the “Not So Famous” Battleship Sunk During the Pearl Harbor Attack
As we mark the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War …
Pearl Harbor: Preparations for War
In January 1941, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet, used brush, ink, rice paper, and the rich flourish …
Force K Annihilates the Duisburg Convoy
“The ships seemed to make no effort to escape, and it was all too easy; they burst into flames as …
Cpl. Dakota Meyer and the Battle of Ganjgal
“We will do to you what we did to the Russians!”
– Taliban insurgent leader transmission
At 0300 on Sept. …
The Blue Angels: A 65 Year History
At the end of World War II, the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the formation …
Undeclared War in the Atlantic: The U.S. Navy Versus the U-boats
In October 1941, the United States was the only major industrial power still neutral. But that status was becoming increasingly …