Naval Aviation Through the Decades: The Beginning
With his red hair and freckled face, Theodore G. “Spuds” Ellyson could be likeable. “[He] will stop at nothing in …
Naval Forces
The First Launch, The First Trap
Seven years after the Wright Flyer had made history above the sands south of Kitty Hawk, N.C., the U.S. Navy …
Intrepid Project Seeks to Bring American Barbary War Remains Home
“From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” go the words to the hymn of the U.S. Marine …
Remembering the USCGC Acushnet
On March 11, 2011, at Coast Guard Base Support Unit Ketchikan, Alaska, the 67-year-old Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet was officially …
Pearl Harbor Survivor Sikorsky JRS-1 Moves to Museum Facility
In March, the world’s only surviving Sikorsky JRS-1 amphibious seaplane (the military version of the Sikorsky S-43) arrived at the …
Poseidon Among New Naval Aircraft Joining the Fleet During the Centennial of Naval Aviation Year
The U.S. Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft has entered into Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
Prime contractor …
Gulf War: F-14 Tomcat in Combat
When Operation Desert Storm began, the F-14 Tomcat was the only fighter in the U.S. inventory to have scored an …
Vice Adm. Samuel L. Gravely Pioneered in Peace and War
Vice Adm. Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. racked up a long list of “firsts” in surface warfare before becoming the first …
Gulf War: Two-seat Hornet Was a “Whizbang” Weapon in Desert Storm
When Marines went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991, their “secret weapon,” in the words of one back-seater, …
Gulf War: Naval Lessons of the Gulf War
For the Navy, the Gulf War was an introduction to the post-Cold War world. It was the first major joint …