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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 ..read more
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In Operation Squarepeg, the New Zealand Army and U.S. Navy combined to seize the Green Islands and complete the isolation ..read more
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With World War II heating up, the U.S. Navy needed women to help fill its ranks—but was keen on making it clear that this was but a temporary wartime measure ..read more
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The sinking of the Laconia, and the ordeal of the survivors ..read more
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Perhaps the least known of the U.S. Navy’s Civil War–era ironclads was a highly innovative, technologically advanced, high-freeboard seagoing ship built solely to battle the Royal Navy ..read more
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Barron would take Decatur’s life in 1820, but first he saved him and others of the pantheon of early American naval heroes ..read more
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It was early in the American Revolution—August 1776—and the Americans had driven the British out of Boston to regroup in Canada ..read more
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After the Battle of the Masts, the Islamic naval threat would loom over the Mediterranean for centuries ..read more
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The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the Naval History and Heritage Command, and the U.S. Naval Institute announce the 2024 CNO Naval History Essay Contest ..read more