Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...

The chair of the Naval Academy History Department resigned after reportedly being ordered by the academy’s superintendent to remove a previously approved paper from the list of those to be presented ...

For travelers with a strong interest in ships and naval history, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is a must-visit. This is what ...

History and technological change : the study of history in the U.S. Navy 1873-1890 --- Luce's idea of the Naval War College --- Technology and strategy : professional thought in the U.S. Navy, ...

The introduction of the submarine to naval warfare reshaped planning and doctrine. While typical engagements relied on guns and precision, the submarine didn’t need to concern itself with being as ...

NAPLES, Italy — As Allied forces stormed Nazi-occupied territory in France on D-Day, it became clear that the peril soldiers faced at Omaha Beach threatened the effort to liberate Europe from German ...

A professor whose paper on homosexuality in naval adventure literature was accepted to a Naval Academy history symposium learned in June that his invitation had been rescinded — for reasons, he says, ...

A photograph from a series of images showing the tattoos of C. A. Lushbaugh, who served in the Navy in the 1920s. (USS Arizona Memorial Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command) During his third ...