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Nov 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | Eric L. Mills |Otto Sindig
Sources:Robert Ferguson, The Vikings: A History (New York: Viking, 2009), 321–22. Angelo Forte, Richard Oram, and Frederik Pedersen, Viking Empires (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 186–88. J. A. Giles, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), 994 AD entry, 89. Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, rev. ed.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |Andrew Blackley |Eric L. Mills |Martin J. Bollinger
By Admiral Worth H. Bagley, U.S. Navy (Retired), and Admiral Harold E. Shear, U.S. Navy (Retired) December 2024 Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. served as an innovative Chief of Naval Operations from 1970 to 1974. His actions elicited praise on one hand and criticism on the other.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |BJ Armstrong |Eric L. Mills |James Young
On the 80th anniversary of the 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro fully exonerated the African American sailors who were court-martialed. At the outset of an occupation of the Philippines that would last for decades, U.S. personnel took control of the Spanish gunboat Panay. It was beneath an October sky that the swan song of the Imperial Japanese Navy could be heard at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | Eric L. Mills
It was beneath an October sky that the swan song of the Imperial Japanese Navy could be heard at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The fleet of the Rising Sun would struggle on to the end of the Pacific war, but as a crippled, increasingly depleted vestige, its fate seeming more and more foregone.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | Eric L. Mills |Eduard Nezbeda |Seeschlacht von Lissa
In the century between the fall of Napoleon and the opening guns of World War I, an alluring force was reconfiguring the European map: cultural nationalism—the idea that people of shared language and traditions, though divided by political borders, in reality form their own cohesive national identity.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
usni.org | Taira Payne |Eric L. Mills |John Gargus
S. Harbaugh Moore Commander Moore was a surface line officer on active duty from 1966 to 1988. He was commissioned through the NROTC program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served on a variety of surface ships on both the East Coast and West Coast. His final assignment was on the staff of the Command, Control, and Communications Systems Directorate (J-6) of the Organization of Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |Andrew Blackley |Eric L. Mills |Jeff Vandenengel
Ed Offley was named the 2023 Naval History Author of the Year at the 151st Annual Meeting of the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Maryland, on 8 May. Fifteen years before the Vought F4U Corsair cemented its name in history over the Pacific Ocean in World War II, the original Corsair earned its own significant place in the ... The “Cradle of the Confederacy” was always going to be a tough nut to crack, but for Rear Admiral John Dahlgren, losing one chief of staff after another made matters ...
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
usni.org | BJ Armstrong |J. M. Caiella |Eric L. Mills |Chris Hemler
More on the Possible Monitor Revelation Jim Caiella In his “A New Look for an Old Icon,” Francis DuCoin makes an interesting argument for a view of the ironclad USS ... It did not take long for the weaponeers to come up with a cost-effective solution to this gunboat threat: rapid-firing small-caliber guns with enough hitting power and range to cripple ...
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
usni.org | Eric L. Mills
Borne by the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French revolutionary spirit spread like a virus across Europe in the late 18th century. When French forces marched into the Netherlands in 1795, revolution-zealous Dutchmen viewed it more as a liberation than an invasion. Their revolt marked the death of the Dutch Republic and the birth of the new, Napoleon-aligned Batavian Republic. Now, Napoleon found himself with a much-needed, beefed-up North Sea naval presence courtesy of his new allies the Dutch.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |Eric L. Mills |Philip K Allan |Francis DuCoin
The program that developed the atomic bomb awarded a contract to the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Company to determine the feasibility of using nuclear energy to power an aircraft. A New Look for an Old Icon The world is well familiar with the iconic design of the ironclad USS Monitor—but there is compelling evidence to suggest that the images of her in battle are not correct. Sixty years ago, Navy pilot Charles Klusmann was shot down over Laos.
