Elegant, glamorous and doomed, the romantic appeal of the airship is hard to resist.  Everyone knows the tragic saga of …

Operation KE was the Jan. 14-Feb. 7, 1943 withdrawal of 10,600 defeated, starving Japanese soldiers of the battered 17th Army …

Six months after he had rescued Lt. Col. Iceal Hamilton (Bat 21), on the evening of Oct. 31, 1972, Navy …

Nowadays, most fighters have twin engines and tail fins. When these features were introduced on the U.S. Navy‘s F7U-1 Cutlass …

To those who don’t know its history well, New York City may not appear to be a Navy town. However, …

Special Forces – the Green Berets – whose motto is De oppresso liber (“To liberate the oppressed”) take pride in …

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., USA (Ret.), died Dec. 27, 2012, in Tampa, Fla., of complications from pneumonia. He was …

At air shows in Ohio and Indiana in the triumphant months after World War II, visitors saw an odd-looking, four-engined …

Unlike the Kriegsmarine’s U-boats, which he embraced, Adolf Hitler had a love-hate relationship with its surface fleet, one complicated by …

It was sometime in September of 1776 when the first armed vessel of the United States to carry the name …