James Young

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.

Sep 1, 2024 | usni.org | James Young

Dr. Young is the author of Wonder No More: An Alternate Leyte Gulf and the non-fiction Eagles, Ravens, and Other Birds of Prey: United States Air Force Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) Doctrine, 1973–1991. His other writing credits include articles in The Journal of Military History, the Marine Corps University Press Expeditions, and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.